The methods of overthrowing an already enfeebled government are well known to ancient and modern history. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
Verb (used with object), : That bout of pneumonia enfeebled him. From Dictionary.com.
It's going to enfeeble our efforts to secure stuff. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 19, 2009] Reference
And it would enfeeble the Democratic Party for a generation. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » The Real Story on Bankster Political Influence] Reference
They want to enfeeble female beauty by covering up those who possess it. From Wordnik.com. [Greener Feminist Pastures: 'Miss Sweden' Cancelled After "Feminist Harassment"] Reference
He could not even think what it might be, so utterly did it enfeeble him. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Young People, December 16, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference
Excessive indulgences often enfeeble the powers and often result in impotence. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
As you enfeeble the private sector, the more reason you have to "take up the slack.". From Wordnik.com. [The BudgetRule of Law vs. Rule of Man] Reference
Far from augmenting his power, his greatest enterprises merely tended to enfeeble it. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. From Wordnik.com. [Sheldon Drobny: Organized Political Parties: Another Form Of Religion] Reference
That the wise Hacchem did nothing to enfeeble it, may be judged from the following illustration. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Moors of Spain] Reference
This kind of selection can enfeeble the existing flora and fauna, but cannot produce a new species. From Wordnik.com. [At the Deathbed of Darwinism A Series of Papers] Reference
Mere antiquarianism, Dr Arnold justly observes, is calculated to contract and enfeeble the understanding. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843] Reference
They must be very young, so that they would have no ties to remember, no human sympathies to enfeeble them. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Round World And What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 22, April 8, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls] Reference
The haze of years may magnify all the nobler outlines, while it conceals all that would enfeeble their dignity. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference
But to impose on the girl the precautions necessary to the mother, is one way to enfeeble and prematurely age her. From Wordnik.com. [The Education of American Girls] Reference
His admitted addictions -- to tranquilizers and narcotics, Coca-Cola and cigarettes -- seemed to enfeeble him over time. From Wordnik.com. [He Made Pantsuits Suit Working Women] Reference
He goes on and it seems as if to him the years come as the snow falls on the mountains, not to enfeeble but to embellish. From Wordnik.com. [The Wesleyan Methodist Pulpit in Malvern Sermons Preached at the Opening Services of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, in 1866] Reference
Japan and the U.K. The spending cuts and tax hikes they will be forced to impose will impair growth and enfeeble currencies. From Wordnik.com. [Investing In Bonds Of Low-Debt Nations] Reference
Any major losses by hedge funds that have to cover short positions in VW at exorbitant prices could enfeeble counterparty banks. From Wordnik.com. [Crash-Test Dummy for German Officials] Reference
My point here is not to enfeeble the espousal of S/M by turning it into a more easily digestible general principle of self-detachment. From Wordnik.com. [Foucault and the Hedgerow History of Sexuality] Reference
Some observers here have interpreted that as evidence of American efforts "to enfeeble Pakistan," as the anti-American newspaper the Nation put it. From Wordnik.com. [U.S. officials try to smooth relations with Pakistan amid WikiLeaks releases] Reference
She now, therefore, believed that her partiality was returned; and this belief had power to shake all her resolves, and enfeeble all her objections. From Wordnik.com. [Cecilia] Reference
Examine the stock from time to time, and remove all wild shoots and suckers, which it may throw up, as they will rob the graft of nourishment and enfeeble it. From Wordnik.com. [The Cultivation of The Native Grape, and Manufacture of American Wines] Reference
Whenever the Lord gives a command, many things are perpetually occurring to enfeeble our purpose: means fail, we are destitute of counsel, all avenues seem closed. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1] Reference
Even if it do not enfeeble our inward life, it must inevitably bring disquiet. From Wordnik.com. [Wisdom and Destiny] Reference
We should not injure and enfeeble the original vine in order to get others like it. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Acre] Reference
There is no money in the treasury, and so they enfeeble her instead of strengthening. From Wordnik.com. [The Innocents Abroad] Reference
The root law 'means to enfeeble, render sick, especially applied to love-sickness (Lau'ah). From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
Life has been given us -- for a reason we know not -- but surely not for us to enfeeble it, or carelessly fling it away. From Wordnik.com. [Wisdom and Destiny] Reference
He may have an inborn tact for finding it out; but his life will never teach it him, and will probably enfeeble it in him. From Wordnik.com. [The English Constitution] Reference
They can not do much harm, unless a tree is neglected; in this case, however, they will soon enfeeble, and probably destroy it. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Acre] Reference
I am unwilling that any mean apprehension of personal danger should enfeeble my nerves in the discharge of a stern and solemn duty. From Wordnik.com. [A Strange Story — Complete] Reference
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