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adjective
- 1. in a very weakened and infirm state: "a debilitated patient"
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DEBILITATED definition: 1. past simple and past participle of debilitate 2. to make someone or something physically weak: . Learn more.
: to impair the strength of : enfeeble. sailors debilitated by scurvy. an economy debilitated by years of civil war. debilitation. di-ˌbi-lə-ˈtā-shən. dē- noun. Did you know? Debilitate, enfeeble, undermine, and sap all share the general sense "to weaken."
to make someone or something physically weak: Chemotherapy exhausted and debilitated him. Synonyms. drain. enfeeble formal. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Becoming and making less strong. abatement. adulterant. adulterated. dull. ease. emasculation. enervate. enervatingly. fade. hedge. melt. relieve. tottering. turn to jelly idiom.
to make someone or something physically weak: Chemotherapy exhausted and debilitated him. Synonyms. drain. enfeeble formal. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Becoming and making less strong. abatement. adulterant. adulterated. dull. ease. emasculation. enervate. enervatingly. fade. hedge. melt. relieve. tottering. turn to jelly idiom.
verb (used with object) , de·bil·i·tat·ed, de·bil·i·tat·ing. to make weak or feeble; enfeeble: The siege of pneumonia debilitated her completely. Synonyms: devitalize, enervate, deplete, weaken. debilitate. / dɪˈbɪlɪˌteɪt / verb. tr to make feeble; weaken. Discover More. Derived Forms. deˌbiliˈtation, noun. Discover More. Other Words From.
Definition of debilitate verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
If you are debilitated by something such as an illness, it causes your body or mind to become gradually weaker.
To debilitate something is to make it weaker. A bad flu may debilitate your powers of concentration, like the New Year's resolutions that temporarily debilitate bakeries' business. The verb debilitate traces back to the Latin word debilis, meaning “lame, disabled, crippled.”
6 days ago · lacking strength or vigor.
adjective. in a severely weakened state. Occasionally a patient is so debilitated that he must be fed intravenously. You could end up totally debilitated. Trying to carry out that simple task reminded me of how physically debilitated I was. the debilitated ruling party. Japan's debilitated banking system. Collins English Dictionary.
