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Weak or lame in the loins. [Obs.]

To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness. Luxury had not emasculated their minds. V. Knox.

The act of depriving, or state of being deprived, of vigor or strength; unmanly weakness.

Weakened; weak; without strength of force. Pope.

The act of weakening, or reducing strength.

Having power, or a tendency, to enervate; weakening. [R.]

To weaken; to enervate. [Obs.] Milton.

To make feeble; to deprive of strength; to reduce the strength or force of; to weaken; to debilitate. Enfeebled by scanty subsistence and excessive toil. Prescott.

The act of weakening; enervation; weakness.

One who, or that which, weakens or makes feeble.

A thing entailed. Brutality as an hereditary entailment becomes an ever weakening force. R. L. Dugdale.

Liable to vanish or disappear; faint; weak; evanescent; as, evanid color. [Obs.] They are very transistory and evanid. Barrow.

commodities in a warehouse, a picture in a gallery. Exhibiting a miserable example of the weakness of mind and body. Pope.

sins is made; an expiatory sacrifice or offering; an atonement. Those shadowy expiations weak, The blood of bulls and goats. Milton.

To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions; as, to extend liquors. G. P. Burnham.

To lessen; to palliate; to lessen or weaken the force of; to diminish the conception of, as crime, guilt, faults, ills, accusations, etc.; -- opposed to aggravate. But fortune there extenuates the crime. Dryden. Let us extenuate, conceal, adorn the unpleasing reality. I. Taylor.

Weak; insipid; tasteless; commonplace. [R.] "Passages that are somewhat fade." Jeffrey. His masculine taste gave him a sense of something fade and ludicrous. De Quincey.

To deteriorate in respect to vigor, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker; as, a sick man fails.

A failing short; a becoming deficient; failure; deficiency; imperfection; weakness; lapse; fault; infirmity; as, a mental failing. And ever in her mind she cas about For that unnoticed failing in herself. Tennyson.

Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, faint with fatigue, hunger, or thirst.