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de·bil·i·tat·ing

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. debilitatingadjective

    impairing the strength and vitality

Wiktionary

  1. debilitatingadjective

    Causing a loss of energy or strength.

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  1. debilitating

    Debilitating refers to causing severe weakness or reduction in strength, often pertaining to a person's health or physical condition. It describes something, such as a disease or condition, that impairs the normal functioning or capacity of an individual, system, or entity.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Debilitating

    of Debilitate

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of debilitating in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of debilitating in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of debilitating in a Sentence

  1. Health Minister Sussan Ley:

    This government is incredibly sympathetic to the suffering of those Australians with debilitating illnesses and we want to enable access to the most effective medical treatments available.

  2. Jim Davis:

    There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.

  3. Joseph Brusuelas:

    The delegation of addressing the pandemic to the states, and what can fairly be described as the abdication of any responsibility for the pandemic on the part of the federal government, have contributed to a debilitating sense of policy uncertainty that is dampening economic activity.

  4. Lisa Frankel:

    Individual therapy can be helpful as well, many people have a hard time opening up in groups and do better with individual counseling. If therapy triggers other losses or traumas, these losses might also have to be looked at. Grief that is really debilitating or lasts exceptionally long might be complicated by the association of the loss to other losses and trauma. Individual therapy might be really important to understand this connection and to work it through.

  5. Peter Hotez:

    So many of these neglected tropical diseases are not acute infections like ... the flu or common cold, many are chronic, debilitating conditions that mimic non-communicable diseases ... If somebody has epilepsy, they don't think of cysticercosis ... If a child tests poorly in school, the pediatrician or nurse practitioner won't think of toxocariasis.

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