Example Sentences

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The war had enfeebled, physically and psychologically, the claims of Western power over the Eastern treasure house.

From Time Magazine Archive

The last visit of the white leech, and the blow of the woman, had enfeebled me, but already my strength was reviving, and I kept her in sight without difficulty.

From Lilith, a romance by MacDonald, George

She had never possessed a strong mind and the various chances and changes of her life had enfeebled instead of strengthening it.

From A True Friend A Novel by Sergeant, Adeline

It would require much nerve to talk to strange people upon an excitable topic; and a camp fever, which among other things I had gained on the Chickahominy, had enfeebled me to the last degree.

From Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War by Townsend, George Alfred

Book-learning, the accumulation of wordy common-places, the gaudy pretensions of poetical fiction, had enfeebled and perverted our eye for nature.

From The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits by Hazlitt, William