enfeeble

Partisanship, the first president observed, “serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026

In a letter to Dr. Gabadadze and other deans, they wrote that they worried about setting “a precedent, completely lacking in due process, that could undermine faculty freedoms and correspondingly enfeeble proven pedagogic practices.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 3, 2022

Their goal is to blunt and enfeeble criticism and distract from its truthfulness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2022

Abood held fast for several decades in the face of a well-funded movement to reverse the decision and enfeeble public sector unions.

From Slate ● Dec. 7, 2017

Believe me, leave your productions as they are, use words which mean something, and laugh at the grammarians who enfeeble all your phrases with their purisms.

From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Wiliam Cabell Bruce

But knowing the hallmarks of classic style will make anyone a better writer, and it is the strongest cure I know for the disease that enfeebles academic, bureaucratic, corporate, legal, and official prose.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

The effects of the heat, moreover, are aggravated by the humidity of the atmosphere, so that it saps the vitality and enfeebles the stoutest constitution.

From The Outlook: Uncle Sam's Place and Prospects in International Politics by Newton Macmillan

It impairs the functions of the brain, clouds the understanding, and enfeebles the memory.”—Dr.

From The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity by Charles Ebert Orr

Pope availed himself of the false construction with a freedom which seriously deforms and enfeebles much of his poetry.

From The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition by Alexander Pope

Help from the outside may be convenient, but it enfeebles; all self-help invigorates.

From Increasing Personal Efficiency by Russell H. Conwell

The former Red Army is in an enfeebled state.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025

She engenders compassion as Elisabeth grapples with her aging body, and a scene where she is enfeebled and struggles to get out of a chair is both achingly painful and achingly funny.

From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2024

Added to this, Congress, which governed India for decades, looks enfeebled and in decline.

From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2024

His voice was a bit weak and his body enfeebled, but he remained possessed of what a critic called an “infernal apostolic manner.”

From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2022

A form was near—what form, the pitch-dark night and my enfeebled vision prevented me from distinguishing.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

His balding head’s scraggly hair—in contrast to the wigs worn by just about every Frenchman at the time, no matter the social class—is both ennobling and a bit enfeebling, like an aging but distinguished mane.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

They fear that the enfeebling of the judiciary will compromise the rule of law and make the economy unattractive for investment.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 26, 2023

It’s an image that evokes an enfeebling combination of envy and rage, as it becomes increasingly clear that the botters are perpetually one step ahead of our mere keyboards and mouses.

From The Verge ● May 25, 2022

These are things the Europeans agree need to be addressed, but not by enfeebling the nuclear deal which, they say, is crucial to their security.

From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2018

Great changes had been accomplished by popular movements even during the enfeebling and disheartening reign of George the Fourth.

From A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume IV by Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy