Synonyms for debilitate
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : dih-bil-i-teyt |
| Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈbɪl ɪˌteɪt |
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Définition of debilitate
Origin :- 1530s, from Latin debilitatus, past participle of debilitare "to weaken," from debilis "weak" (see debility). Related: Debilitated; debilitating.
- verb incapacitate
- I will not debilitate the cook; I will not exhaust the fowl-yard.
- Extract from : « No Defense, Complete » by Gilbert Parker
- He was one of those whom books cannot debilitate, nor a life of study incapacitate for the study of life.
- Extract from : « On the Sublime » by Longinus
- Taking hot food or drink, habitually, tends to debilitate all the organs thus needlessly excited.
- Extract from : « A Treatise on Domestic Economy » by Catherine Esther Beecher
- Many suppose that a warm bath exposes a person more readily to take cold; and that it tends to debilitate the system.
- Extract from : « A Treatise on Domestic Economy » by Catherine Esther Beecher
- This is to prevent the free escape of water, which might debilitate the starch-making cells.
- Extract from : « Trees Worth Knowing » by Julia Ellen Rogers
- Indulgence, however, should not be too frequent, lest it debilitate the pair and undermine their health.
- Extract from : « Plain Talks on Avoided Subjects » by Henry Newell Guernsey
- Not even the heaviest thunder showers seem to debilitate their kinetic ardour.
- Extract from : « The Journal of a Disappointed Man » by Wilhelm Nero Pilate Barbellion
- Of course that kind o' work tends to debilitate the best kind o' money.
- Extract from : « Sonnie-Boy's People » by James B. Connolly
- Even tea and coffee, the common beverages of all classes of people, have a tendency to debilitate the digestive organs….
- Extract from : « Smoking and Drinking » by James Parton
- The employment of purgatives is even less rational; they debilitate without affording any relief.
- Extract from : « A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I » by Various
Antonyms for debilitate
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