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debility

/dih-bil-i-tee/US // dɪˈbɪl ɪ ti //UK // (dɪˈbɪlɪtɪ) //

体弱多病,体弱,衰弱,体弱症

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural de·bil·i·ties.

    • : a weakened or enfeebled state; weakness: Debility prevented him from getting out of bed.
    • : a particular mental or physical handicap; disability.

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Examples

  • For those who don’t die, the outcome can still be prolonged and severe debility.

  • He feared she might not rally again; that the extreme debility might prevent it: and he said as much to Hyde in private.

  • I tried Sanatogen on a woman suffering from extreme neurasthenia and debility.

  • His health was such that he could take no solid food; sleep had left him; his debility was extreme.

  • Used immoderately, it exhausts both the mental and bodily powers, and produces great debility.

  • The last and hardest trial of all—long debility and frequent illness—had failed to shake this intense serenity.