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Definitions for debilitate
dɪˈbɪl ɪˌteɪtde·bil·i·tate

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. enfeeble, debilitate, drainverb

    make weak

    "Life in the camp drained him"

Wiktionary

  1. debilitateverb

    To make feeble; to weaken.

    The American Dream suffered a debilitating effect after the subprime crisis.

  2. Etymology: debilitatus, past participle of debilitare, from the adjective debilis, from de- + habilis.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. 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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  1. 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

  1. Debilitateverb

    to impair the strength of; to weaken; to enfeeble; as, to debilitate the body by intemperance

  2. Etymology: [L. debilitatus, p. p. of debilitare to debilitate, fr. debilis. See Debility.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. 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, ātumdebilis, weak—de, not, habilis, able. See Ability.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of debilitate in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of debilitate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of debilitate in a Sentence

  1. Pidgeon Pagonis:

    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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