0 to make someone or something physically weak: --
Chemotherapy exhausted and debilitated him.
If true, this would be a dangerous and debilitating trend.
One study showing the debilitating results of loss of control occurred almost inadvertently, as the aftereffect of an earlier research project.
There is a parallel opposition between rigorous, healthy market forces and lax, debilitating governmental assistance and regulation.
Malodorous wounds can have psychological effects as well as being debilitating physically.
Animals which are debilitated, less active and less aggressive on the one hand but also less able to assess risk will be more vulnerable.
People debilitated by malnutrition will be all the more susceptible to disease whether known or new.
However, in the same way as pathological fear and anxiety are debilitating, excessive or prolonged sickness behaviour may be deleterious.
While insults can be more unpleasant than injuries, the capacity to trade gibes does not imply debilitating pain.
