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debility

noun as in incapacity, weakness

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For those who don’t die, the outcome can still be prolonged and severe debility.

He feared she might not rally again; that the extreme debility might prevent it: and he said as much to Hyde in private.

I tried Sanatogen on a woman suffering from extreme neurasthenia and debility.

His health was such that he could take no solid food; sleep had left him; his debility was extreme.

Used immoderately, it exhausts both the mental and bodily powers, and produces great debility.

The last and hardest trial of all—long debility and frequent illness—had failed to shake this intense serenity.

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On this page you'll find 51 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to debility, such as: decrepitude, disease, enervation, enfeeblement, exhaustion, and faintness.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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