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- DictionaryDebilitated/dəˈbiləˌtādəd/
adjective
- 1. in a very weakened and infirm state: "a debilitated patient"
The economy is now strengthening after a long and debilitating recession. Definition of debilitate verb in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
debilitated in British English. (dɪˈbɪlɪteɪtɪd ) adjective. in a severely weakened state. Occasionally a patient is so debilitated that he must be fed intravenously. You could end up totally debilitated. Trying to carry out that simple task reminded me of how physically debilitated I was. the debilitated ruling party.
verb. debilitated, debilitates, debilitating. To make weak or feeble; enervate. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. To make feeble; to weaken. The American Dream suffered a debilitating effect after the subprime crisis. Wiktionary. Synonyms: drain. enfeeble. incapacitate. enervate. weaken. unnerve. undo. undermine. sap. devitalize. attenuate.
debilitate. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English de‧bil‧i‧tate /dɪˈbɪlɪteɪt/ verb [ transitive] formal 1 to make someone ill and weak He was debilitated by his illness. 2 to make an organization or system less effective or powerful The state is debilitated by inefficiency and corruption. —debilitating adjective a ...
Britannica Dictionary definition of DEBILITATE. [+ object] formal + technical. : to make (someone or something) weak : to reduce the strength of (someone or something) The virus debilitates the body's immune system. — usually used as (be) debilitated. His body was debilitated [= weakened] by the disease.
debilitated (not comparable) Weakened . His debilitated body, the victim of the wasting disease, could no longer support his weight. run down, damaged, in disrepair.
to make weak or feeble; enfeeble: The siege of pneumonia debilitated her completely. Latin dēbilitātus (past participle of dēbilitāre ), equivalent. to dēbilit-, stem of dēbilis weak + -ātus - ate1. 1525–35. de•bil′i•tant, n. de•bil′i•ta′tion, n. de•bil′i•ta′tive, adj. weaken, deplete, enervate, devitalize.
