enfeeblement

"The cell I was in works a spell of enfeeblement on its occupants."

"The party has gone through a period of enfeeblement because it lacked proper leadership," said a senior official in the government.

She noted his enfeeblement and gloried in what she had done.

Republican enfeeblement has in turn enfeebled the country, by gridlocking the Congress.

Such loss, calculated as talent squandered, could not but lead to a serious enfeeblement of the race.

"The noticeable enfeeblement of the sun is hereby explained.

Its use, it would seem, could end only in a complete enfeeblement of meaning and a general abasement of values.

There is also another way in which Prohibition, in my opinion, has led to the enfeeblement of the State.

There is disease, domestic violence, environmental pollution, the enfeeblement of old age, starvation, drug addiction and more - much more.

The unions have become like a resident Grandad - no less embarrassing for enfeeblement, but still handy with his wallet.

Seldom does a warrior die of some illness, or of the enfeeblement of age.

The 'winter of discontent' thus encouraged a wider sense of national enfeeblement and decline.

He is Coe's cloudy lens for viewing the enfeeblement of a shifting era.

His later works, however, show signs of an exhausted vein and of an exhausted spirit, accompanied or caused by physical enfeeblement.

This is enfeeblement!"

The guns of the People's Liberation Army have proved effective against unarmed students; they cannot defeat enfeeblement and death.

"Aging is a stage of life," he wrote, but it need not become the shambles of enfeeblement and infirmity it frequently becomes.

Making the Most of It Some in Quebec see the migration as a symptom of enfeeblement.

He dared not risk a fight with this young lightning-flash, and again he knew, and more bitterly, the enfeeblement of oncoming age.

Mr. Manchester's enfeeblement cuts short an ambitious literary enterprise, begun nearly 25 years ago, that spawned an enormous and nearly cultlike following.

After the devastating invasions by Timur and subsequent enfeeblement of the Kingdom of Georgia, it soon faced a new threat.

Meanwhile, as Motecuzoma dwindled into lethargy and enfeeblement, Cortes stood taller and bolder.

A portrait of the dynasty's last, aged leader, Muzaffar al-Din Shah, records his enfeeblement with merciless accuracy.