Debilitate meaning

Verb: debilitate

Pronunciation: (di’bi-lu,teyt)

Debilitate meaning:

• Make weak and infirm
• Hinder, weaken or delay

Synonyms: enfeeble, drain, enervating, sapping, devitalizing, draining, fatigue, exhausting

Derived forms: debilitates, debilitated, debilitating

Quotations: Eddie Izzard –   Performance enhancing drugs are banned in the Olympics. OK, we can swing with that. But performance debilitating drugs should not be banned. Smoke a joint and win the hundred meters, fair play for you. That’s pretty damn good. Unless someone’s dangling a Mars bar off in the distance.

Ryszard Kapuscinski – A population weakened and exhausted by battling against so many obstacles whose needs are never satisfied and desires never fulfilled is vulnerable to manipulation and regimentation. The struggle for survival is, above all, an exercise that is hugely time consuming, absorbing and debilitating. If you create these ”anti-conditions,” your rule is guaranteed for a hundred years.

William Hummer – If oil hit $100, it would have quite a debilitating effect. The economy would slow to a crawl. We’d have a return to stagflation, that cliche from the 1970’s. We’d see a huge cutback in driving. The sacrifices would be severe. It would be another blow to the airlines and the whole transportation sector.

Ken Bacon – We think that the Operation Southern Watch and Northern Watch have been able to debilitate Saddam Hussein’s air defenses quite a lot. For one thing, we think that he’s largely afraid to use his top of the line air defense systems, for fear of losing them to our patrolling airplanes.

Jim Davis – There are so many opportunities in life that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.

Sample sentences:

1. Life in the military camps debilitated him.
2. They have seen how debilitating it is and how difficult people’s lives are that have the disease.
3. I have learned that trying to guess what the boss or the client wants is the most debilitating of all influences in the creation of good advertising.
4. Fear is the enemy of logic. There is no more debilitating, crushing, self-defeating, sickening thing in the world to an individual or to a nation.
5. The difficulty now is going out and raising money. Spending all your time begging for money is so debilitating on a candidate.
6. The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is most debilitating to the person who bears it.
7. He’s fine. This is early and it’s nothing that’s really debilitating. This is just spring training stuff.
8. It’s not something that’s totally debilitating. It’s there. It grabs him a little bit right when he makes his effort to go to the plate.
9. Now that the tests have been done, we know what it’s not. Whatever it was, it was significantly more debilitating yesterday morning.
10. This would be significant if we were to lose even half our export sales. This would be a very debilitating development in the United States.