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debility

[dih-bil-i-tee] / dɪˈbɪl ɪ ti /


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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

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

This is the eschaton through lack of access, but also through human atrophy, debility, the desuetude of critical function.

From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2020

Hence the numerous varieties of invermination in debility of the digestive organs.

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




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