v. [UN-2 6.] trans. To deprive of strength; to weaken.
1598. Florio, Sgagliardare,… to enfeeble, to vnstrengthen.
1604. Marston, Malcontent, II. iii. D j. If griefe that … Beduls the eye, vnstrengthens all the blood, Chance to remooue me to another world.
1890. Talmage, From Manger to Throne, 244. Enervated by his long fasting, and doubly unstrengthened by a sudden relaxation.
Hence Unstrengthening vbl. sb.
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.
