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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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This enfeebles the top authority in the process of introducing a good new principle, if it demands concessions from subordinates; the same goes for their impotence in interceding on behalf of an innocent subordinate.
Suvorov's canons of army and state governance by Golubev, A.Yu. / Military Thought
As a reader aspiring to be an American lady, then, Flora not only enfeebles the European novel, she also threatens to diminish Jewish intellectual discourse in much the same way.
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The reasons why old age seems unhappy and is feared, Cicero made Cato say in De Senectute, are four: "the first because it distances us from occupations; the second because it enfeebles the body; third, because it deprives us of most pleasures; and fourth, because it is not far from death.
Never say die by Gonzalez-Crussi, F. / Commonweal
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