debilitated
IPA: dʌbˈɪɫʌteɪtɪd
adjective
- Weakened.
- run down, damaged, in disrepair.
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Examples of "debilitated" in Sentences
- They debilitated the boss.
- The men debilitated the others.
- The material debilitated the men.
- The people debilitated the patient.
- The medicine debilitated the people.
- They were not supposed to be debilitated.
- As opposed to myopic or otherwise debilitated.
- A violent fever followed for 14 days, leaving the victim weak and debilitated.
- When she said she was 'debilitated' at havin 'to give us ham and toast that was funny enough, but what come afterwards was funnier.
- He is in a wheelchair, debilitated from AIDS, and they live in constant fear of eviction as their limited income is barely sufficient to pay the rent.
- Mr. Trichet said the financial crisis had 'debilitated' the real economy, that interest rates were appropriate and that the central bank would exit its non-standard measures gradually.
- Former Newsnight producer Chrissy Rosenthal, from Cookham, said she and ITV football frontman Jim had been "debilitated" by the the illness but were now better nearly a month after they were struck down.
- The "Nemeses" grouping calls attention to Roth's continuing concern with men who may not be stricken with what's often defined as a "tragic flaw" but who nevertheless come to live debilitated lives of their own making.
- She describes her father as a "charming" but "totally irresponsible man," and tells how her mother, a "pioneer in journalism who couldn't do it all," was debilitated by what was "at that time called a nervous breakdown."
- The film follows Pimentel as he gives up a safe corporate job to follow his dream and talent of public speaking, as well as his long friendship with a writer almost completely debilitated by cerebral palsy (Michael Sheen).
- Some suggest that the prospect for future bipartisan / post-partisan efforts both procedurally and substantively has been debilitated, since the politicization of the debt ceiling sacrificed problem-solving in favor of ideology.