debility

If your pain is from nerve compression, a disc issue or joint degeneration, inactivity can cause muscles to tighten, pain to worsen, loss of physical condition and more debility.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 15, 2025

At 40, Baudelaire was a shadow of his former self, crushed by unrepayable debts, suffering the aftereffects of a seemingly minor stroke, and facing the onset of syphilitic debility.

From Washington Post ● May 11, 2022

Over and over, she finds language sufficient for her intense debility.

From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2022

This season, the writers on “Succession” have been playing up the age-related debility and mental fogginess of their crotchety corporate monarch.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2021

It appears, however, that this individual had previously laboured under an affection produced by the use of lead, which had left him in a state of much nervous debility.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen

To really good contemporary artists, however, the debilities inherent to art made in a very small size are merely challenges to be met.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

Among a population of veterans who have a high incidence of mental and physical debilities, some get discouraged and drop out of the process.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2025

But his diagnosis of America’s debilities is more persuasive than his prescriptions to remedy them.

From New York Times ● Nov. 20, 2018

Such debilities can be found in many people with dementia.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 23, 2015

Diseases and debilities of the reproductive organs, are by the same means equally benefited, but in these cases galvanism in some form is often required to effect a complete cure.

From Turkish and Other Baths A Guide to Good Health and Longevity by Gordon Stables