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unˈstrengthen, v.
[un-2 6.]
trans. To deprive of strength; to weaken.
1598Florio, Sgagliardare,..to enfeeble, to vnstrengthen. 1604Marston Malcontent ii. iii. D j, If griefe that..Beduls the eye, vnstrengthens all the blood, Chance to remooue me to another world. 1890Talmage From Manger to Throne 244 Enervated by his long fasting, and doubly unstrengthened by a sudden relaxation.
Hence unˈstrengthening vbl. n.
1623Sir J. Eliot in J. Forster Life (1864) I. 166 Reason affected not the cries..of the people, nor policy the unstrengthening of the state. |