unstrengthenv.
transitive. To deprive of strength; to weaken.
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the world > life > the body > bodily constitution > bodily weakness > weakening > weaken [verb (transitive)]
unstrengea1225
unstrength?c1225
feeblea1340
affeeblea1400
weakc1400
affeeblishc1450
enfeeblisha1492
pallc1500
weaken1569
effeeblish?1572
unstrengthen1598
labefy1620
unnerve1621
unmasculate1639
unbrace1711
sinka1715
infirmize1751
slacken1778
exhaust1860
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Sgagliardare,..to enfeeble, to vnstrengthen.
1604 J. Marston Malcontent ii. iii. sig. D If griefe that..Be-duls the eye, vnstrengthens all the blood, Chance to remooue me to an other world.
1890 T. De W. Talmage From Manger to Throne 244 Enervated by his long fasting, and doubly unstrengthened by a sudden relaxation.
Derivatives
unˈstrengthening n.
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1623 Sir J. Eliot in J. Forster Life (1864) I. 166 Reason affected not the cries..of the people, nor policy the unstrengthening of the state.
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