- present participle of debilitate.
debilitating
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The crisis was intensified by a debilitating leadership tussle.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Media outlets may self-censor to avoid financially debilitating penalties.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
"We believe vaccination has the potential to provide an important new layer of protection against this debilitating disease," Pfizer's chief vaccines officer, Annaliesa Anderson, said in a joint statement.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
The parasitic disease has made thousands of people sick with debilitating bouts of diarrhea this summer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
The doctor diagnosed various problems, some lethal, all apparently debilitating, and left me taking various medications and endless rituals of check-ins and checkouts and tests and retests....
From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen
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