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debilitate

/dih-bil-i-teyt/US // dɪˈbɪl ɪˌteɪt //UK // (dɪˈbɪlɪˌteɪt) //

衰弱,削弱,衰弱的,弱化

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    de·bil·i·tat·ed, de·bil·i·tat·ing.

    • : to make weak or feeble; enfeeble: The siege of pneumonia debilitated her completely.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbincapacitate
Forms: debilitated, debilitating

Examples

  • A debilitating pandemic swept through the global economy, upending long-established ways of doing business.

  • That leads to dementia, a debilitating condition that affects millions of Americans each year.

  • Chikungunya is a disease that can result in debilitating joint pain.

  • Extreme humidity from New Orleans to northern Wisconsin will make summers increasingly unbearable, turning otherwise seemingly survivable heat waves into debilitating health threats.

  • His story also doubles as the suffocating, debilitating nature of the closet itself.

  • Infernal, it can cause fires and explosions; toxic, it can debilitate, poison, and kill.

  • Taking hot food or drink, habitually, tends to debilitate all the organs thus needlessly excited.

  • Many suppose that a warm bath exposes a person more readily to take cold; and that it tends to debilitate the system.

  • He was one of those whom books cannot debilitate, nor a life of study incapacitate for the study of life.

  • Even tea and coffee, the common beverages of all classes of people, have a tendency to debilitate the digestive organs….

  • In such a case diarrhea will no longer serve a good end, but will on the contrary debilitate the system.