enfeeblement

Example Sentences

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“Overstretch — the enfeeblement that comes with confusing ends and means — allows enemies to apply leverage: small maneuvers that have big consequences.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 27, 2018

Indeed, the past quarter-century has witnessed enfeeblement and decline�the end of an empire, the shrinking value of the pound sterling, near stagnation of a formerly innovative economy.

From Time Magazine Archive

“In their youth, mortals behave more like nymphs. Adulthood seems impossibly distant, let alone the enfeeblement of old age. But ponderously, inevitably, it overtakes you. I find it a frustrating, humbling, infuriating experience.”

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

Armpit Swelling.—Often this comes as the result of a chill, or of enfeeblement of the system from various causes.

From Papers on Health by Kirk, Edward Bruce

Any enfeeblement of the normal and natural instinct of virility would show itself first in morbid aberrations.

From Post-Prandial Philosophy by Allen, Grant