enfeebles
- present tense form of enfeeble (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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But knowing the hallmarks of classic style will make anyone a better writer, and it is the strongest cure I know for the disease that enfeebles academic, bureaucratic, corporate, legal, and official prose.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
A doubting conscience enfeebles a man’s spiritual vigour for work.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Hebrews by Edwards, Thomas Charles
This enfeebles the muscles of the back, and exhausts the nervous energy, while the erect position favors their development and power, because there is an alternate contraction and relaxation of the muscles.
From A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) by Cutter, Calvin
He was not of those whose Christian liberality slackens and enfeebles devotion to their own communion.
From Charles Lewis Cocke Founder of Hollins College by Smith, William Robert Lee
The pressure of tight dresses, under the name of a “snug fit,” enfeebles the muscles of the back, and is a common cause of projecting shoulders and curvature of the spinal column.
From A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) by Cutter, Calvin
