Hypertext Webster Gateway: "debilitate"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
Various ails debilitate the mind. --Jenyns.
The debilitated frame of Mr. Bertram was exhausted by
this last effort. --Sir W.
Scott.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
debilitate
v : make weak; "Life in the camp drained him" [syn: {enfeeble},
{drain}]
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