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• v  make weak
• s  causing debilitation

• For all three enfeebling flaws, Ike prescribed the same remedy: "Delete.
• Lack of oxygen stimulates instead of enfeebling these secondary centres, and they send out stronger and stronger impulses to the respiration muscles.
• The secret of father Sitwell's impressiveness was not so much that he was very rich but that he never so much as recognized such enfeebling concepts as self-doubt and humility.

• enfeeble
• debilitate
• drain
• debilitative
• enervating
• weakening

Quotes

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• John Howard in Sydney Morning Herald
  The two measures will put Australia at the forefront of fighting this enfeebling disease,Mr Howard told residents of a nursing home at Marsfield in Sydney's north-west.
• Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin in Philippine Star
  As French lawyer and economist Brillat-Savarin wrote in his book, The Physiology of Taste, salad "freshens without enfeebling and fortifies without irritating."