etiolate:

to deprive of natural vigor, make feeble

etiolate:

to deprive of natural vigor, make feeble

(Verb)

Example Sentences:

Ramayana:  Although age hadn’t etiolated Jatayu, it had slowed his reflexes, and that proved fatal for him in his fight with Ravana.

Mahabharata:  During the Kurukshetra war in which Dhritarashtra lost all his hundred sons, those eighteen days etiolated him more than the preceding eighteen years.

Bhagavad-gita:  Knowledge means to contemplate the distresses of material existence whereby we are etiolated by old age before being eliminated by death.

Comments ( 2 )

  • Harivamsa Dasa

    Mental anxieties can often etiolate us more than what physical ailments can do.

  • Chaitanya Charan Das

    Yes, if we are etiolated by our mind, the cure is both easier and tougher than that for physical exhaustion.

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