debility
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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
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
Whence the debility, the infantile degeneration of this imaginary.
From Salon • Jan. 5, 2020
Making matters worse, in 2013 Medicare removed “failure to thrive” — one of the hallmarks of late-stage dementia and what some physicians call frailty — and debility as primary diagnoses for hospice entry.
From Washington Post • May 4, 2018
No sheep, affected with this disease, recovers after emaciation and debility have proceeded to any great extent.
From Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. by Jennings, Robert
Vocabulary lists containing debility
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