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How to pronounce debilitate in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms drain, enfeeble
Type of weaken
Has types emaciate, macerate, waste
Derivation debilitation, debilitative, debility

Examples of debilitate

debilitate
Thus fear does not have to debilitate our capacity to make better choices.
From the blogs.psychcentral.com
Most of these diseases either blind, deform, or debilitate their victims.
From the foxbusiness.com
What's more is they debilitate entire communities, paralyzing its citizens out of fear.
From the techland.time.com
Those will do far more in the end to debilitate the cartels than throwing soldiers at them.
From the time.com
Never pick after that date, you will debilitate your precious plants.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Could the Inland Empire's contagion debilitate L.A. and areas beyond?
From the time.com
Will this change debilitate the housing markets in these areas?
From the theatlantic.com
Katherine has Lou Gehrig's disease, and there's no telling how quickly it will debilitate her.
From the ocregister.com
I hope this whole affair doesn't debilitate Venezuela's political culture for another generation.
From the economist.com
More examples
  • Enfeeble: make weak; "Life in the camp drained him"
  • (debilitated) adynamic: lacking strength or vigor
  • (debilitating) impairing the strength and vitality
  • (debilitation) serious weakening and loss of energy
  • To make feeble; to weaken
  • (debilitated) Weakened; run down, damaged, in disrepair
  • (debilitation) The act or process of debilitating, or the condition of one who is debilitated; weakness
  • (debilitated) A condition of defense or economic security characterized by ineffectualness. [CIAO] (see also risk)
  • (debilitated) said of a planet in fall or detriment or in hard aspect to Mars, Saturn or an outer planet.