What does debilitate mean?
Definitions for debilitate
dɪˈbɪl ɪˌteɪtde·bil·i·tate
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Princeton's WordNet
enfeeble, debilitate, drainverb
make weak
"Life in the camp drained him"
Wiktionary
debilitateverb
To make feeble; to weaken.
The American Dream suffered a debilitating effect after the subprime crisis.
Etymology: debilitatus, past participle of debilitare, from the adjective debilis, from de- + habilis.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To DEBILITATEverb
To weaken; to make faint; to enfeeble; to emasculate.
Etymology: debilito, Latin.
In the lust of the eye, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life, they seemed as weakly to fail as their debilitated posterity ever after. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours, b. 1. cant. 1.
The spirits being rendered languid, are incapable of ventilating and purifying the blood, and debilitated in attracting nutriment for the parts. Gideon Harvey, on Consumptions.
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debilitate
To debilitate means to make weak or feeble, to hinder, delay or slow down something or someone. This can refer to physical, mental, or structural weakening.
Webster Dictionary
Debilitateverb
to impair the strength of; to weaken; to enfeeble; as, to debilitate the body by intemperance
Etymology: [L. debilitatus, p. p. of debilitare to debilitate, fr. debilis. See Debility.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Debilitate
de-bil′i-tāt, v.t. to make weak: to impair the strength of.—adj. Deb′ile (arch.), weak, feeble.—ns. Debilitā′tion; Debil′ity, weakness and languor: a weak action of the animal functions. [L. debilitāre, ātum—debilis, weak—de, not, habilis, able. See Ability.]
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of debilitate in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of debilitate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of debilitate in a Sentence
I let the shame of having a different body and not looking' normal,' debilitate me, i needed that permission and Bo Laurent gave it to me.
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