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Debilitate
debilitate
(debilitates, debilitating, debilitated) 1. If you are debilitated by something such as an illness, it causes your body or mind to become gradually weaker. (FORMAL) Stewart took over yesterday when Russell was debilitated by a stomach virus. VERB: usu passive, be V-ed by n • debilitating ...a debilitating illness. ADJ • debilitated Occasionally a patient is so debilitated that he must be fed intravenously. ADJ 2. To debilitate an organization, society, or government means to gradually make it weaker. (FORMAL) ...their efforts to debilitate the political will of the Western alliance. VERB: V n • debilitating ...years of debilitating economic crisis. ADJ • debilitated ...the debilitated ruling party. ADJ
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transitive verb (-tated; -tating) Etymology: Latin debilitatus, past participle of debilitare to weaken, from debilis weak Date: 1533 to impair the strength of ; enfeeble Synonyms: see weaken • debilitation noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v.tr. enfeeble, enervate. Derivatives debilitatingly adv. debilitation n. debilitative adj. Etymology: L debilitare (as DEBILITY) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. мед. ослаблять, расслаблять; истощать; расстраивать (здоровье, рассудок и т. п.) ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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~ v 1 if illness, heat, hunger etc debilitates someone, it makes their body or mind weak (debilitated by fever) 2 if an action debilitates an organization or structure, it weakens its authority or effectiveness ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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