debilitate

If you position that as your true purpose, a man’s failure to live up to your expectations will cease to debilitate you.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2026

Both brothers died of Hungtington’s disease, a genetic disorder that began to severely debilitate them during their 30s.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2025

Extreme and lengthy heat can debilitate bodies; some of the far-reaching effects of extreme heat are already taxing countries in much of the world.

From New York Times ● Jan. 6, 2023

“Symptoms such as persistent fatigue, breathlessness, brain fog and depression could debilitate many millions of people globally.”

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 27, 2021

He needed to be better about that, about letting the nightmares debilitate him.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

Ultimately, the goal is to identify potential genetic targets to treat or even cure the chronic metabolic disease that affects and sometimes debilitates more than 400 million adults worldwide, according to the International Diabetes Federation.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 19, 2024

The more the gestation progresses, the more her mind debilitates.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2023

For this Global Reach Challenge, Sir Ranulph will have to overcome vertigo and Cheyne-Stokes, a condition which debilitates his breathing above 16,000 feet.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2016

It debilitates me to think that my actions have caused her emotional and physical stress that is completely unwarranted and unfair.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 7, 2016

It debilitates and enervates them, and they are not near so strong and healthy as formerly.

From Augusta Triumphans Or, the Way to Make London the Most Flourishing City in the Universe by Daniel Defoe

It has effectively debilitated us from being able to enforce it in most contexts we’ve used it in in the past.

From Slate ● Apr. 30, 2026

In Lindo’s final scene, with West Indian Archie debilitated from a stroke, the actor improvised, collapsing into Washington and urging him to exercise Archie’s paralyzed right arm.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026

The abrupt cessation of care prompted my debilitated mom’s eviction from an assisted living facility.

From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2025

Yet Germany's military remains in a debilitated state - less battle-ready, we are told, than three years ago.

From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2025

Was I really so debilitated that I had stared into the face of a near stranger and mistaken him for a friend with whom I’d spent the previous six weeks?

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

As part of her initial treatment, the BBC News chief presenter underwent several "debilitating" hour-long sessions of venesections.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026

Mr. Boorman managed to injure himself gravely by whipping up dust storms on the Warner Bros. lot; fungal spores got into his lungs and he contracted a rare, sometimes debilitating disease called Valley Fever.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

He continues to live with memory loss, chronic pain and debilitating headaches.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026

Also known as “breakbone fever” — the painful, debilitating disease, which can be fatal, is caused by a virus adapted to an invasive, African mosquito known as Aedes aegypti.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026

Her diseases are usually tropical and debilitating, but only occasionally deadly.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García