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enfeeble

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en·fee·ble  (n-fbl)
tr.v. en·fee·bled, en·fee·bling, en·fee·bles
To deprive of strength; make feeble.
en·feeble·ment n.
en·feebler n.
enfeeble
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[-bling, -bled] to make (someone or something) weak
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Verb1.enfeeble - make weak; "Life in the camp drained him"
debilitate, drain
weaken - lessen the strength of; "The fever weakened his body"
emaciate, macerate, waste - cause to grow thin or weak; "The treatment emaciated him"
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Moreover, he was too conscientious to do anything to enfeeble his impressions and unwilling to alter any of the customary conditions under which the manifestations were said to occur.
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Its inevitable tendency, whenever it is brought into activity, must be to enfeeble the Union, and sow the seeds of discord and contention between the federal head and its members, and between the members themselves.
Federalist Papers Authored by Alexander Hamilton by Hamilton, Alexander View in context
There is no money in the treasury, and so they enfeeble her instead of strengthening.
The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
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