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Use debilitate in a sentence

Definition of debilitate:

  • (verb) To make feeble; to weaken.

Sentence Examples:

Instead of being strengthened, such a child will be rendered more weak and debilitated.

The sickness lasted for some weeks, and left her considerably debilitated.

Before I began, he seemed sunk and debilitated, incapable of any strenuous impression.

Three years later another spell more debilitating than this migraine took place.

Yes, illusion can be beautiful, on condition that it is not constantly debilitated.

A troubled half hour's sleep followed, from which he awoke much debilitated.

Debilitating diseases favor the production of this affection in some animals.

Mark how careful medical men are to recommend lively society to debilitated patients.

And the debilitated novel came apart in his hands with a soft, ripping sound.

They also occur when one is run down, but they are not so debilitating and constant.

This condition sometimes occurs in profound toxic and debilitated states.

Here he suffered an attack of cholera, which much debilitated his already wasted strength.

The type is poor though refined, debilitated though ideal.

What war left of the railways winter did its best to debilitate.

She was wild-eyed, and she shuddered when the express made its debilitating drop.

The sly fellow dwelt on the pale complexion and debilitated appearance of the lads.

A constitution debilitated by previous dissipation could not easily withstand the shock.

Often the appetite is lost, and the animal becomes debilitated.

He nearly fainted, and was for the time greatly debilitated.

I may add that, though dry, the air was felt by us to be debilitating.

Debilitated individuals, especially children, are more prone to an attack.

Much culture has debilitated them.

This is debilitating business.

This plethora debilitates the industrial body, its functional activities are weakened.

It may also be occasioned by taking cold, and by a debilitated condition of the stomach.

And you mustn't talk like your own characters; you've no idea how debilitating that is.

The patient rallied, but she remained very much debilitated.

Law does not end uncertainty, and it debilitates the mind.

Coffee and tea debilitate the stomach and impair digestion.

The best of them took little part in the debilitating pleasures of Versailles.

Any excessive emotion debilitates the nervous system and thus affects good looks.

He stared about wildly, panic lifting in him like a swift debilitating disease.

You see how our wounds and hard labor have debilitated us.

The disease or the medicine or both had greatly debilitated me.

I do not think that it debilitated him very much at the time.

One of these had been rather more debilitated than the other.

The fruit, like the parent tree, is affected by the debilitated old age of the variety.

Debilitated, degenerate stock will not produce healthy and vigorous young.

I continued several months in a low and debilitated state.

The consequence is that no one is greatly debilitated by the heat.

Lucky thing for you, too, in your weak and debilitated condition.

Hot drinks are debilitating.

The morning, too, often found him feverish and debilitated, and with no appetite.

I had now become much debilitated by want of food and the fatigues of the journey.

She was a debilitated nervous woman.

The patient is much debilitated for several days and requires careful diet.

And again he raised up his debilitated frame with the intention of quitting his couch.

Hot baths, if prolonged, are debilitating and should be taken less frequently.

Of course a good deal of this may proceed from a previous debilitated state.

Even in winter the south winds are frequently oppressive and debilitating.

The summer heats are debilitating, especially in the interior.

Indeed, in all my experience, I had never known a day so debilitating.

Unless Conscience be acted upon, it becomes debilitated.

The condition is usually found in weak, debilitated women.

Yonder are three debilitated churches struggling for existence against each other.

Behold that debilitated weak old man running after pleasures he can no longer enjoy.

The opening of spring is usually debilitating both to man and beast.

Her debilitated fingers let her down.

That, again, means a bad complexion and a debilitated constitution.

Rodgers, one of my friends, who was so debilitated that he was obliged to return north.

He had been previously debilitated by great labor, in warm weather.

The more debilitated the body is, the more forcibly these stimuli act upon it.

It counteracts in many instances the debilitating effects of hunger, cold, and labor.

Has the body been debilitated by exposure to the cold air?

The patient is neither sick nor well, but debilitated and "good for nothing."

That debilitated nobleman, though shaky, was game to the backbone.

No, it was not such food as their weakened, debilitated systems craved.

For fifteen days he has been enduring with his debilitated soldiers a struggle of despair.

Should not be used in debilitated, delicate or young animals.

He had worked in a vortex of debilitating local intrigue.

Debilitated, degenerated stock will not produce healthy and vigorous young.

I will not debilitate the cook; I will not exhaust the fowl- yard.

Haggard and lined, his face looked like the face of a debilitated old man.

This affection mostly attacks debilitated or fat horses.

All medicine of a debilitating character must be withheld.

Fever came on; a cough, fatal to so debilitated a frame, succeeded.

The debilitating effects of mercury, however, are not such as many suppose.

The act or process of debilitating, or the condition of one who is debilitated; weakness.

The steady diet of Moose and tea was debilitating; my legs trembled under me.

The few diners had left long ago, and the debilitated old waiter had retreated to the bar.

Both sexes may be overly fat or weakened and debilitated by disease.

You look a debilitated silhouette of the near recent past.

We are greatly debilitated by sleeping unnecessarily warm.

To dream of eating pears, denotes poor success and debilitating health.