enfeeble

There is no money in the treasury, and so they enfeeble her instead of strengthening.

It is subject to consultation, a process which may enfeeble it.

He could not even think what it might be, so utterly did it enfeeble him.

He had lived for over a thousand years and only recently had age begun to enfeeble him.

Little by little, like moisture in the walls of a house, this enfeebles the entire apple.

Enfeebled by its long dependence on a family dynasty, the Congress Party has no obvious leadership choice.

They live in an enforced and enfeebling idleness.

Enfeebled by the drugs, her self-control was perilously thin.

Elsewhere, high daytime temperatures will enfeeble and destroy it, unless air-conditioning is available.

She could administer drugs that would enfeeble mind or body, but gradually-and most important of all, irreversibly.

It might have invested too little in building its capital stock, thus perhaps enfeebling itself in future competition with foreign rivals.

I would not enfeeble them by dissipation.

He cautioned that factionalism would taint the spirit of national unity and "enfeeble the public administration."

How can a man receive as a wife, and become a father by, a woman whose body and soul are filled with enfeebling, polluting disease?

The two concluding lines enfeeble instead of strengthening the finale, which would have been exceedingly pungent without them.

Still, the majorities in New York go to unusual lengths to enfeeble the minority parties.

She wanted to attack the enemy in the night to enfeeble them but her lieutenants did not accept her suggestion.

Gentleness softens the soul and, more important, enfeebles the sinews in the soup bone.

It is the governments of the Member States that are enfeebling Europe, while we should be restoring her strength!

"I took issue with signing a treaty that would, in extreme cases, enfeeble my people," Kage said.

An ultimate victory by Rose, unlikely but not impossible, would substantially enfeeble the power of the commissioner's office, and cause chaos in baseball.

There is a real danger that by enfeebling government we shall make the United States a less competitive country, and a less civilized one.

If we do not act, then we enfeeble ourselves, deprive ourselves of our own power."

The most ennobling and simultaneously enfeebling principle of the democratic experiment is that we get the leaders we deserve.

A flat lamp encased in the ceiling shed a grayish light that was successfully enfeebling the daylight.