debilitating
IPA: dʌbˈɪɫʌteɪtɪŋ
adjective
- Causing a loss of energy or strength.
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Examples of "debilitating" in Sentences
- Mamen himself died ten days later of the same debilitating disease.
- Oral Submucous Fibrosis is a chronic debilitating disease of the oral cavity.
- Uncontrolled or runaway debt also has a long-term debilitating effect on a nation's economy.
- His childhood traumas resulted in debilitating bouts of depression which he later called “my dark nights of the soul”.
- As Jeff sees it, the correlation between physical and financial abuse is strong and can lead to long-term debilitating consequences.
- It was clear that most South Africans refused to be drawn into what he labelled debilitating action against the government they elected themselves.
- Yet one woman dies every minute and many more face long-term debilitating ill-health as a result of conditions related to pregnancy and childbirth.
- Netshitenzhe said it was clear that most South Africans refused to be mobilised into what he labelled debilitating action against the government they elected themselves.
- Declassified documents released by the FBI this week paint a picture of an esteemed and learned man who nonetheless fell prey to a long-term debilitating habit while he was a Supreme Court justice during the 1970s.
- "The New Nobility" is unbeatable for its depiction of today's FSB, but the book might have paid more attention to the long-term debilitating effects of the agency's corruption and nepotism: Those may contain the seeds of the FSB's ultimate destruction.
- For the last month, Mr. Besigye and other opposition leaders, many of whom lost handily to President Museveni in the February election, have staged twice-weekly street demonstrations to protest rising fuel and food prices, and what they call debilitating government corruption.