Enfeeble

(verb.) make weak; 'Life in the camp drained him'.

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• The strength of the papacy lay in the faith men had in it, and it used that faith so carelessly as to enfeeble it. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• There is no money in the treasury, and so they enfeeble her instead of strengthening. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The poor bent, enfeebled creature struck his imagination. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Genoa and Venice, the only two remaining which can pretend to an independent existence, have both been enfeebled by it. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The effort of remembering that he wanted to speak to me was, but too evidently, the only effort that his enfeebled memory was now able to achieve. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Scores of millions were suffering and enfeebled by under-nourishment and misery. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• With my enfeebled health I do not know whether I shall ever be able to complete it, now that my assistant has been taken from me. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• I am now in my eighty-fourth year, and the last year has considerably enfeebled me, so that I hardly expect to remain another. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Meanwhile the barbarians swung down into the broken-up and enfeebled world of civilization from the west and from the east. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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