Debilitate \De*bil"i*tate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Debilitated;
p. pr. & vb. n. Debilitating.] [L. debilitatus, p. p. of
debilitare to debilitate, fr. debilis. See Debility.]
To impair the strength of; to weaken; to enfeeble; as, to
debilitate the body by intemperance.
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Various ails debilitate the mind. --Jenyns.
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The debilitated frame of Mr. Bertram was exhausted by
this last effort. --Sir W.
Scott.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
debilitated \debilitated\ adj.
1. lacking strength or vigor; weakened.
Syn: adynamic, asthenic, enervated.
[WordNet 1.5]
2. weakened due to illness.
Syn: enfeebled, infirm, seedy.
[WordNet 1.5]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
debilitated
adj 1: lacking strength or vigor [syn: adynamic, asthenic, enervated]
2: weak and feeble; "I'm feeling seedy today" [syn: enfeebled,
infirm, seedy]
WordNet (r) 2.0
170 Moby Thesaurus words for "debilitated":
anemic, anile, apathetic, asthenic, benumbed, blase, bloodless,
bored, cachectic, castrated, chicken, cowardly, crabbed, dead,
decrepit, demasculinized, devitalized, doddered, doddering,
doddery, dopey, dormant, drained, drooping, droopy, drugged, dull,
effeminized, effete, emasculate, emasculated, enervated, enfeebled,
etiolated, eunuchized, exanimate, exhausted, fagged, failing,
faint, fainting, faintish, fatigued, feeble, feeling faint, flabby,
flaccid, flagging, floppy, footsore, fossilized, frail, frazzled,
gelded, gerontal, gerontic, gone, good and tired, gutless,
healthless, heavy, hebetudinous, imbecile, impotent,
in poor health, inanimate, inert, infirm, invalid, jaded,
lackadaisical, languid, languishing, languorous, leaden, lethargic,
lifeless, limber, limp, listless, lumpish, lustless, marrowless,
moribund, mossbacked, moth-eaten, mummylike, nerveless, numb, pale,
palsied, papery-skinned, peaked, peaky, phlegmatic, pithless,
pooped, powerless, ravaged with age, ready to drop, reduced,
reduced in health, rickety, rubbery, run ragged, run to seed,
run-down, rusty, sagging, sapless, sated, seedy, senile, shaky,
shriveled, sickly, sinewless, slack, sleepy, slow, sluggish, soft,
somnolent, spineless, stagnant, stagnating, strengthless,
stricken in years, stultified, supine, timeworn, tired,
tired-winged, toilworn, torpid, tottering, tottery, unhardened,
unhealthy, unmanned, unnerved, unrefreshed, unrestored, unsexed,
unsound, unstrung, valetudinarian, valetudinary, vegetable,
vegetative, wan, way-weary, wayworn, weak, weakened, weakly,
wearied, weariful, weary, weary-footed, weary-laden, weary-winged,
weary-worn, wilting, with low resistance, withered, wizened,
world-weary, worn, worn-down
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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