Thesaurus / debilitate
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A debilitating pandemic swept through the global economy, upending long-established ways of doing business.
THE DIGIDAY WORKLIFE AWARDS SHORTLIST: KEEPING COLLABORATION AND CHARITY ALIVE DURING AN UNPRECEDENTED YEARDIGIDAY AWARDSOCTOBER 20, 2020DIGIDAYThat leads to dementia, a debilitating condition that affects millions of Americans each year.
EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE A SOCIAL LIFE, ESPECIALLY OLDER ADULTSKAT ESCHNEROCTOBER 20, 2020POPULAR-SCIENCEChikungunya is a disease that can result in debilitating joint pain.
A GLOWING ZEBRAFISH WINS THE 2020 NIKON SMALL WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY CONTESTERIN GARCIA DE JESUSOCTOBER 13, 2020SCIENCE NEWSExtreme humidity from New Orleans to northern Wisconsin will make summers increasingly unbearable, turning otherwise seemingly survivable heat waves into debilitating health threats.
CLIMATE CHANGE WILL FORCE A NEW AMERICAN MIGRATIONBY ABRAHM LUSTGARTEN, PHOTOGRAPHY BY MERIDITH KOHUTSEPTEMBER 15, 2020PROPUBLICAHis story also doubles as the suffocating, debilitating nature of the closet itself.
TOWARD A QUEER DISNEY CANONEMILY VANDERWERFFSEPTEMBER 4, 2020VOXSome people have debilitating illness, while others barely feel sick, if at all.
WHY COVID-19 IS BOTH STARTLINGLY UNIQUE AND PAINFULLY FAMILIARAIMEE CUNNINGHAMJULY 2, 2020SCIENCE NEWSTaking hot food or drink, habitually, tends to debilitate all the organs thus needlessly excited.
A TREATISE ON DOMESTIC ECONOMYCATHERINE ESTHER BEECHERMany suppose that a warm bath exposes a person more readily to take cold; and that it tends to debilitate the system.
A TREATISE ON DOMESTIC ECONOMYCATHERINE ESTHER BEECHERHe was one of those whom books cannot debilitate, nor a life of study incapacitate for the study of life.
ON THE SUBLIMELONGINUSEven tea and coffee, the common beverages of all classes of people, have a tendency to debilitate the digestive organs….
SMOKING AND DRINKINGJAMES PARTONWORDS RELATED TO DEBILITATE
- afflict
- agitate
- ail
- bewilder
- bug
- confound
- cramp
- craze
- debilitate
- derange
- discombobulate
- discompose
- disconcert
- dismay
- disquiet
- distract
- distress
- disturb
- egg on
- fire up
- flip
- flip out
- floor
- flurry
- fluster
- get to
- give a hard time
- grieve
- incapacitate
- indispose
- key up
- lay up
- make a scene
- make waves
- perturb
- pick on
- pother
- psych
- rattle
- rock the boat
- ruffle
- sicken
- spook
- stir up
- throw off balance
- turn
- turn on
- unhinge
- unnerve
- unsettle
- atrophy
- be of no avail
- blow
- burn up
- consume
- corrode
- crumble
- debilitate
- decay
- decline
- decrease
- deplete
- disable
- disappear
- dissipate
- divert
- drain
- droop
- eat away
- ebb
- emaciate
- empty
- enfeeble
- exhaust
- fade
- fritter away
- frivol away
- gamble away
- gnaw
- go to waste
- lavish
- lose
- misapply
- misemploy
- misuse
- perish
- pour down the drain
- run dry
- run through
- sap
- sink
- splurge
- squander
- thin
- throw away
- trifle away
- undermine
- wane
- wear
- wear out
- wilt
- wither
- abate
- adulterate
- break up
- cripple
- crumble
- cut
- debase
- debilitate
- decline
- decrease
- depress
- devitalize
- dilute
- diminish
- droop
- dwindle
- ease up
- enervate
- exhaust
- fade
- fail
- faint
- flag
- give way
- halt
- impair
- impoverish
- invalidate
- languish
- lessen
- limp
- lose
- lose spirit
- lower
- minimize
- mitigate
- moderate
- reduce
- relapse
- relax
- sap
- slow down
- soften
- temper
- thin
- thin out
- tire
- totter
- tremble
- undermine
- vitiate
- wane
- water down
- wilt
- annoy
- bore
- burden
- cause ennui
- cloy
- debilitate
- depress
- disgust
- dishearten
- distress
- drain
- droop
- drowse
- enervate
- enfeeble
- exasperate
- exhaust
- fade
- fag
- fail
- fall off
- fatigue
- flag
- glut
- grow tired
- harass
- have had enough
- irk
- jade
- leave one cold
- lose interest
- make discontented
- nauseate
- oppress
- overwork
- pain
- plague
- sap
- sicken
- sink
- strain
- take it out of
- tax
- tire
- tire out
- try the patience of
- tucker out
- vex
- weaken
- wear down
- wear out
- weigh
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