declension of strength, loss of strength, failure of strength;
delicacy, invalidation, decrepitude, asthenia[obs3], adynamy[obs3],
cachexy[obs3], cachexia[Med], sprain, strain. reed, thread, rope of
sand, house of cards. softling[obs3], weakling; infant &c. 129; youth
&c. 127. V. be weak &c. adj.; drop, crumble, give way, totter, tremble,
shake, halt, limp, fade, languish, decline, flag, fail, have one leg in
the grave. render weak &c. adj.; weaken, enfeeble, debilitate, shake,
deprive of strength, relax, enervate, eviscerate; unbrace, unnerve;
cripple, unman &c. (render powerless) 158; cramp, reduce, sprain,
strain, blunt the edge of; dilute, impoverish; decimate; extenuate;
reduce in strength, reduce the strength of; mettre de l'eau dans son
vin[Fr]. Adj. weak, feeble, debile|; impotent &c. 158; relaxed,
unnerved, &c. v.; sapless, strengthless[obs3], powerless; weakly,
unstrung, flaccid, adynamic[obs3], asthenic[obs3]; nervous. soft,
effeminate, feminate[obs3], womanly. frail, fragile, shattery[obs3];
flimsy, unsubstantial, insubstantial, gimcrack, gingerbread; rickety,
creaky, creaking, cranky; craichy[obs3]; drooping, tottering &c. v..
broken, lame, withered, shattered, shaken, crazy, shaky; palsied &c.
158; decrepit. languid, poor, infirm; faint, faintish[obs3]; sickly &c.
(disease) 655; dull, slack, evanid|, spent, short-winded, effete;
weather-beaten; decayed, rotten, worn, seedy, languishing, wasted,
washy, laid low, pulled down, the worse for wear. unstrengthened &c.
159[obs3], unsupported, unaided, unassisted; aidless[obs3], defenseless
&c. 158; cantilevered (support) 215. on its last legs; weak as a child,
weak as a baby, weak as a chicken, weak as a cat, weak as a rat; weak
as water, weak as water gruel, weak as gingerbread, weak as milk and
water; colorless &c. 429. Phr. non sum qualis eram[Lat].