Verb (used with object), : That bout of pneumonia enfeebled him. From Dictionary.com.
The result will be the further long-term enfeeblement of the United States, the country with which Canada has so closely tied and aligned itself. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
Upon this ensued headaches, sore-throat, general enfeeblement. From Wordnik.com. [New Grub Street] Reference
Seldom does a warrior die of some illness, or of the enfeeblement of age. From Wordnik.com. [Eaters Of The Dead]
Powers are mostly daily – so a wand of ray of enfeeblement does one ray per day. From Wordnik.com. [4e PHB Readthrough – Chapter 7: Equipment « Geek Related] Reference
Perhaps I'll test it again later to confirm its cause of my very temporary enfeeblement. From Wordnik.com. [eh, and stick insects, arachnids, and rats] Reference
The Modernist drive to remake the world has given way to a postmodern sense of enfeeblement. From Wordnik.com. [A conversation with William Deresiewicz’s article in The Nation…Following James Wood into the Desert…] Reference
The changes that she describes occurred simultaneously with the enfeeblement of organized labor. From Wordnik.com. [Unions May Be Flawed, But They���re Needed] Reference
Often this comes as the result of a chill, or of enfeeblement of the system from various causes. From Wordnik.com. [Papers on Health] Reference
The enfeeblement begins in the first stage, and continues in the other stages with increased effect. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
As for taking enfeeblement as a natural dispensation, she would as soon regard delirium tremens in that light. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
It is, however, simply a mark of the enfeeblement of Parliament that it now has the time to concern itself with froth and trivia. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-06-15] Reference
He dared not risk a fight with this young lightning-flash, and again he knew, and more bitterly, the enfeeblement of oncoming age. From Wordnik.com. [The Famine] Reference
I don't know whether there's any direct connection, but it seems to have coincided with the enfeeblement of the Conservative Party. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
For example, the result of the Bicameral process was an enfeeblement of Government, and feeble Government was seen as bad Government. From Wordnik.com. [Why We Need A New Constitution: Part 6 of 21] Reference
So markets mean that the power of capital will tend to be greater than that of labour despite the enfeeblement of national bourgeoisie. From Wordnik.com. [CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FACING WORKERS AND UNIONS: THE ROLE OF THE ANC] Reference
While his sickness prior to the Mine Run campaign had been brief, his general enfeeblement had given deep concern to army headquarters. From Wordnik.com. [Lee’s Lieutenants] Reference
"What ought to lead France to join with America is the great enfeeblement of England to be effected by the subtraction of a third of her Empire.". From Wordnik.com. [Robert Naiman: Could a "Great Negotiation" End the War in Afghanistan?] Reference
So markets mean that the power of capital as a global force will tend to be greater than that of labour despite the enfeeblement of national bourgeoisie. From Wordnik.com. [An effective developmental state needs a strong Alliance] Reference
Influenza, cholera, and at last maculated fever, the progressive enfeeblement of economic life and new developments of human relationship, prevented that. From Wordnik.com. [The Shape of Things to Come] Reference
The drowning sensation returned, the fear and enfeeblement. From Wordnik.com. [Tono Bungay] Reference
But while this is so, it may yet be true that some special enfeeblement. From Wordnik.com. [Crime and Its Causes] Reference
Human strength increases with enhancement and decreases with enfeeblement. From Wordnik.com. [Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost] Reference
Wesley spoke slowly and carefully, as if I might be suffering from some mental enfeeblement. From Wordnik.com. [Knox] Reference
The cause of this rapid enfeeblement of the Crown lay largely in the changed proportion of wealth. From Wordnik.com. [The Historic Thames] Reference
It left him with a paralysis of the right side and an utter confusion and enfeeblement of intellect. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Sisters] Reference
The one worked by extirpation and forcible repression; the other by mental enfeeblement and moral corruption. From Wordnik.com. [Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction] Reference
The man's entire career serves as a gruesome paradigm of the poverty and enfeeblement of Westminster politics. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
The triumphs left enfeeblement; the defeat acted as a strong tonic which is still working beneficently to-day. From Wordnik.com. [The Task of Social Hygiene] Reference
Any enfeeblement of the normal and natural instinct of virility would show itself first in morbid aberrations. From Wordnik.com. [Post-Prandial Philosophy] Reference
A temporary illness, he called it, the natural enfeeblement following upon a prolonged bout with Yucatan fever. From Wordnik.com. [The Turtles of Tasman] Reference
The dream is not a pathological phenomenon, and it does not leave behind an enfeeblement of the mental faculties. From Wordnik.com. [Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners] Reference
At the same time the whole spectrum suffers enfeeblement; water attacks all its rays, but with different degrees of energy. From Wordnik.com. [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference
In like manner there is a tendency to premature enfeeblement, for the earlier the system matures, the sooner it deteriorates. From Wordnik.com. [The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand] Reference
His humility, that is, was precisely an example of moral vitality and insight rather than of moral awkwardness and enfeeblement. From Wordnik.com. [The Promise of American Life] Reference
It appears as if we must regard eternity as outliving every progressive change, For there is no convergence or enfeeblement of time. From Wordnik.com. [The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays] Reference
The vice of this system is not merely the invasion of the home of the worker, and the consequent enfeeblement of the family and family life. From Wordnik.com. [World's War Events, Vol. II] Reference
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