debilitating
Example Sentences
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She said instead of receiving support for a "chronic and debilitating condition", she had "often been made to feel like a burden".
From BBC
Severity of the initial disease can’t perfectly predict the aftermath: debilitating symptoms have set in for people with mild initial infections.
From Los Angeles Times
The government said the emissions are part and parcel of protecting people from “lethal or significantly debilitating infections that would result without properly sterilized medical equipment.”
From Los Angeles Times
That’s because recruiting patients with a rare and debilitating disease for a placebo trial can be difficult and unethical.
It can be debilitating, and it was difficult for me, but I adjusted, because I could hide behind my work, but as a private citizen, it was more difficult for her.
From Los Angeles Times
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