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Definition of Debilitate
1. Verb. Make weak. "The performance is likely to debilitate Sue"; "Life in the camp drained him"
Generic synonyms: Weaken
Specialized synonyms: Emaciate, Macerate, Waste
Derivative terms: Debilitation, Debilitative, Debility, Enfeeblement
Definition of Debilitate
1. v. t. To impair the strength of; to weaken; to enfeeble; as, to debilitate the body by intemperance.
Definition of Debilitate
1. Verb. To make feeble; to weaken. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Debilitate
1. [v -TATED, -TATING, -TATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Debilitate
Literary usage of Debilitate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Synonyms Explained, in Alphabetical Order: With Copious by George Crabb (1818)
"TO WEAKEN, ENFEEBLE, debilitate, ENERVATE, INVALIDATE. ... is either a particular
or a complete act ; to enfeeble, to debilitate, ..."
2. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1851)
"They add, that the pastures here even debilitate the venom of serpents; so that
those who are frequently bit by serpents in this part escape the danger with ..."
3. The Universal Magazine (1793)
"... promote lent meet with'your approbation, ignorance, and debilitate the fid
vigour of the mind. ..."
4. The British and Foreign Medical Review: Or Quarterly Journal of Practical (1844)
"It appears to us, that the predisposing causes of fever are found in all agencies
which debilitate the system, or are allied to the proximate cause, ..."
5. English Synonyms Discriminated by William Taylor (1856)
"To debilitate. To ENERVATE. TO EFFEMINATE. That debilitates which occasions
temporary weakness, that enervates which permanently injures the strength, ..."
6. An Etymological and Explanatory Dictionary of Words Derived from the Latin by Richard Harrison Black (1825)
"To weaken is either a particular or a complete act; to enfeeble, to debilitate,
and enervate, are properly partial acts: what enfeebles, deprives of vital ..."
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