How To Use Debilitate In A Sentence

  • Issues of fairness and equality aside, the country can't afford to have the president debilitated by the flu or the complications that can follow from it - especially when it is easily prevented.
  • Stowell, born in 1981, claimed that his mother was debilitated by postsurgical pain and anesthesia when she signed a consent form for his circumcision.
  • The troops were severely debilitated by hunger and disease.
  • See 24, 31 for the statement on women and children as imperfect men: "Videtur autem femina quasi puer siue mas imperfectus et eius menstrua quasi sperma indigestum, sanguineam formam retinens propter debilitatem caloris. A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
  • At that point the telephone did ring, but I now felt too debilitated to cope with Charley. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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  • One tended to forget that syphilis is a chronic infection and that the patient can be debilitated.
  • They know a request to kitchen staff will not be met with disdain; our domestics regularly help with feeding debilitated patients in the absence of nursing staff.
  • The film follows Pimentel as he gives up a safe corporate job to follow his dream and talent of public speaking, as well as his long friendship with a writer almost completely debilitated by cerebral palsy (Michael Sheen). Up All Night With Too Many Movies « Screaming Blue Reviews
  • Sleeping sickness, or human African trypanosomiasis, debilitates before it kills. 1 Billion Suffer From Hidden Tropical Diseases, Says WHO
  • As the disease progresses, it can debilitate a person by slowly eating away the joint's cartilage and bone.
  • This image, in turn, stood in stark opposition to that of the deformed, graceless, debilitated scoliotic girl and to that of the languid, listless, and useless conspicuous consumptive.
  • Its causes are in the main, due to poor food, which produces a debilitated condition of the system, and in connection with a want of cleanliness, causes a development of the _acari_, or minute insects, exciting very great irritation upon the skin and causing the cow to rub herself against every object with which she comes in contact. Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure
  • The troops were severely debilitated by hunger and disease.
  • To have many planets debilitated in this way in a nativity is considered a sign of obscurity and low birth.
  • A gastrostomy tube can clearly improve nutritional status in a debilitated person with severe dysphagia, and may prolong life.
  • It is the expences, more than the flaughter, of modem hoftilities, which debilitate every commu-*. An Estimate of the Comparative Strength of Great Britain, During the Present and Four Preceding ...
  • It defeats and debilitates every aspect of your being, producing discouragement, disillusionment, and depression. Recovering From Religious Abuse
  • No discrimination was observed; the robust young man, with an iron constitution, was, so far as related to food, placed on a par with the poor invalid, debilitated with protracted suffering or dying of inappetency. Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale
  • This bacterium is usually confined to hospitals and in particular to vulnerable or debilitated patients.
  • Yet society will ascribe a very low quality of life to poor, debilitated people, despite the fact that they are sometimes the most content. THE STAPLE STREET GANG: MANDY AND THE PURPLE SPOTTED HANKY
  • The troops, already debilitated by the impure drinking water and hunger on the long, hot march from Batesville, were quickly overcome with malaria, as had been predicted.
  • It follows that in cyberspace the intended victim of a verbal assault is also at least less likely to become disarmed, debilitated, and silenced.
  • You were debilitated by the dose given you, but you were not in danger. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
  • Mr. Trichet said the financial crisis had 'debilitated' the real economy, that interest rates were appropriate and that the central bank would exit its non-standard measures gradually. FXstreet.com
  • But if they're separated from the essence of music, which is its numinous quality, then the power of music has been debilitated.
  • Soon enough, however, every aspect of the abuse becomes clear as its crushing reality debilitates you, producing pain in every fiber of your being. Recovering From Religious Abuse
  • Stewart took over yesterday when Russell was debilitated by a stomach virus.
  • At the end of my father's life he was so debilitated that, you know, he - he was forced to do some things that probably he wouldn't have done if he had been healthy.
  • Stewart took over yesterday when Russell was debilitated by a stomach virus.
  • Occasionally a patient is so debilitated that he must be fed intravenously.
  • The "Nemeses" grouping calls attention to Roth's continuing concern with men who may not be stricken with what's often defined as a "tragic flaw" but who nevertheless come to live debilitated lives of their own making. David Finkle: Easy Reader: Philip Roth's Nemesis an Instant Classic
  • I've been debilitated by unresolved conflicts with the result that I've lost my way. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
  • Because of their debilitated condition, mangy wolves may also be more likely to attack easy prey such as domestic sheep.
  • Though I hardly understood the process, the question triggered a cascade of impressions about a person in a debilitated state of health.
  • For alternative views about the deeper issues that restrict, debilitate and deprive Muslim women of their rights and rightful place in society, check out an alternative website: Shahnaz Taplin-Chinoy: "Bare Chests vs. Bullets"
  • Occasionally a patient is so debilitated that he must be fed intravenously.
  • Former Newsnight producer Chrissy Rosenthal, from Cookham, said she and ITV football frontman Jim had been "debilitated" by the the illness but were now better nearly a month after they were struck down. Undefined
  • Even if most Americans are not aware that subsidy shakedowns debilitate local budgets, they do know the names of the corporate buccaneers who have wrecked retirement plans and kicked the slats out of an already wobbly economy.
  • In his late sixties, his fears of illness were fully realized, and he was increasingly debilitated by liver cancer until his death at seventy in 1875.
  • Over the past 25 years I've seen how the pain of chronic stomachaches and headaches can debilitate a child. Charlotte Reznick, Ph.D.: New Study on Guided Imagery for Healing Kids' Chronic Pain
  • Stewart took over yesterday when Russell was debilitated by a stomach virus.
  • As such it is a common ingredient in tonic formulas, particularly for elderly or debilitated people.
  • Before the series of strokes which have debilitated him in recent years, his tenure had been characterised by his chronic laziness and regular sojourns to Europe for drinking, gambling and womanising binges.
  • Some suggest that the prospect for future bipartisan / post-partisan efforts both procedurally and substantively has been debilitated, since the politicization of the debt ceiling sacrificed problem-solving in favor of ideology. Bradford Kane: Lessons From the Debt Ceiling Crisis: Bipartisanship in the Tea Party Era
  • Unless the Education Department gives in to the toxic rhetoric of the for-profits and debilitates the already timid regulations. José Cruz: The Toxic Rhetoric of For-Profit College Companies
  • The service aims to reduce the number of elderly people who are seriously injured or debilitated by trips and falls in their own homes.
  • The dose should generally be reduced in children, elderly, or debilitated patients.
  • The troops were severely debilitated by hunger and disease.
  • The illness, of which she is now clear, would have debilitated a husband of lesser fortitude.
  • Benicio Del Toro does a marvellous turn as a mentally debilitated Indian.
  • All four forms of malaria debilitate the patient by destroying human hemoglobin and are characterized by a cycle of fever, chills, and sweating.
  • Respiratory depression occurs more frequently in elderly or debilitated patients and in those suffering from conditions accompanied by hypoxia, hypercapnia, or upper airway obstruction, in whom even moderate therapeutic doses may significantly decrease pulmonary ventilation. BioSpace.com Featured News and Stories
  • There are a number of drugs that may be used to debilitate a victim and make it easier to perpetrate sexual assault.
  • His ability to handle such a big movie became less and less likely as he became increasingly debilitated by Parkinson's disease.
  • Progress has been debilitated by a refusal to share ideas.
  • Huang is an albino who suffers from debilitated eyesight.
  • Yet society will ascribe a very low quality of life to poor, debilitated people, despite the fact that they are sometimes the most content. THE STAPLE STREET GANG: MANDY AND THE PURPLE SPOTTED HANKY
  • Adhibenda eft autem inhis determinandis pro ajtatum varietate particuia, commnmter 5 quia aliqui luniores, ex debilitate pecuiiariter contracta, poiTunt laborare Vitio Se - mrni; & aiiqui Senes iuueniiem feruare vigorem in multarm statem -, - qui propterea nulio adiumento, per Artem, re~ - quifito, luftrant Ocuiis iiberis tam proxima, quam re - mota, Optica philosophia experimentis et ratione a fundamentis constituta, Nicolai ...
  • People who know that rebuffs are expectable and that failure is remediable - that it results from lack of effort or situational factors and not personal inadequacy - are not debilitated by setbacks.
  • Of course the stresses inherent in the managerial role persisted, but most no longer felt debilitated by them.
  • The dental care of the elderly, the sick and the debilitated is a matter of great importance.
  • When she said she was 'debilitated' at havin 'to give us ham and toast that was funny enough, but what come afterwards was funnier. Thankful's Inheritance
  • Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., said military leaders wanted troops to remain through the end of 2012 to finish off the fighting season and give them the best chance to debilitate the Taliban. Military leaders: Drawdown plan aggressive
  • The lack of employment spurs the mass human migrations that so debilitate the district.
  • She describes her father as a "charming" but "totally irresponsible man," and tells how her mother, a "pioneer in journalism who couldn't do it all," was debilitated by what was "at that time called a nervous breakdown. Marcia G. Yerman: Gloria: In Her Own Words -- A Life in Activism
  • Sleeping sickness, or human African trypanosomiasis, debilitates before it kills. 1 Billion Suffer From Hidden Tropical Diseases, Says WHO
  • A partially debilitated James shuffled his first steps through the medical bay, rebuilding his atrophied muscles after his injury.
  • In the bullfights bulls are often intentionally debilitated with tranquilisers and beatings and have petroleum jelly rubbed in their eyes so they are less able to resist.
  • He is in a wheelchair, debilitated from AIDS, and they live in constant fear of eviction as their limited income is barely sufficient to pay the rent. Human Rights Watch: US: Mississippi Policies Fuel HIV Epidemic
  • They are useful in the treatment of debilitated patients to help restore their physique.
  • Prolonged strike action debilitated the industry.
  • But your literary prowess is too circuitously authenticated to admit of any punctilious commendation from my debilitated pen, and under its umbrageous recess, serenely segregated, from the malapert and hypochondriachal vapours of myopic critics (as I am no acromatic philosopher) I trust every solecism contained in this autographical epistle will find a salvable retirement. Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"
  • Walsh details the struggle to resist neo-liberal agendas that promote privatization and debilitate communities in post-apartheid South Africa. Donna Nevel: Participatory Action Research and Organizing for Justice
  • The traditional view is that the malefic planets tend to be obstructive; planets debilitated by sign or house position tend to find it difficult to act.
  • ‘Because you are so debilitated, you cannot move or breathe properly,’ he told the Irish Medical Times.
  • Even if most Americans are not aware that subsidy shakedowns debilitate local budgets, they do know the names of the corporate buccaneers who have wrecked retirement plans and kicked the slats out of an already wobbly economy.
  • If this protein is so dangerous, why doesn't the body's immune system counteract the effects, or at least debilitate the protein?
  • They know a request to kitchen staff will not be met with disdain; our domestics regularly help with feeding debilitated patients in the absence of nursing staff.
  • But your literary prowess is too circuitously authenticated to admit of any punctilious commendation from my debilitated pen, and under its umbrageous recess, serenely segregated, from the malapert and hypochondriachal vapours of myopic critics (as I am no acromatic philosopher) I trust every solecism contained in this autographical epistle will find a salvable retirement. Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"
  • In recent years he became increasingly debilitated by heart failure.
  • Yet society will ascribe a very low quality of life to poor, debilitated people, despite the fact that they are sometimes the most content. THE STAPLE STREET GANG: MANDY AND THE PURPLE SPOTTED HANKY
  • You know, most chemotherapeutic agents cause hair loss and nausea, and you get very sick and debilitated because not only are they killing the cancer cells, but they're also killing the healthy cells. 'Pot Book' Explores History And Science Of Marijuana
  • Yet society will ascribe a very low quality of life to poor, debilitated people, despite the fact that they are sometimes the most content. THE STAPLE STREET GANG: MANDY AND THE PURPLE SPOTTED HANKY

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