英语词汇“debilitate”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

To debilitate something is to make it weaker. A bad flu may debilitate your powers of concentration, like the New Year's resolutions that temporarily debilitate bakeries' business.

The verb debilitate traces back to the Latin word debilis, meaning “lame, disabled, crippled.” It’s often used to describe what disability or illness does to a person's health, but it can describe anything that has been weakened, like the sense of community that is slowly debilitated by people working longer hours and the lack of sidewalks that in many towns make it harder to walk around and meet the neighbors.

WORD FAMILY

debilitate: debilitated, debilitates, debilitating, debilitation, debilitative+/debile: debility/debilitating: debilitatingly/debilitation: debilitations/debility: debilitate, debilities

USAGE EXAMPLES

He reached AFC championship game following 2014 season and managed to pretty much break even despite series of debilitating injuries.

Seattle Times(Dec 28, 2016)

The president-elect seems to offer equal chances of constitutional crisis and utter, debilitating incompetence.

Washington Post(Dec 19, 2016)

On his first return to America after the October revolution, he got bogged down in a debilitating series of trials for sedition as a communist.

The Guardian(Dec 19, 2016)

v make weak

Syn|Hypo|Hyper

drain, enfeeble

emaciate, macerate, waste

cause to grow thin or weak

weaken

lessen the strength of

单词	debilitate
释义	debilitate (once / 4541 pages) v To debilitate something is to make it weaker. A bad flu may debilitate your powers of concentration, like the New Year's resolutions that temporarily debilitate bakeries' business. The verb debilitate traces back to the Latin word debilis, meaning “lame, disabled, crippled.” It’s often used to describe what disability or illness does to a person's health, but it can describe anything that has been weakened, like the sense of community that is slowly debilitated by people working longer hours and the lack of sidewalks that in many towns make it harder to walk around and meet the neighbors. WORD FAMILY debilitate: debilitated, debilitates, debilitating, debilitation, debilitative+/debile: debility/debilitating: debilitatingly/debilitation: debilitations/debility: debilitate, debilities USAGE EXAMPLES He reached AFC championship game following 2014 season and managed to pretty much break even despite series of debilitating injuries. Seattle Times(Dec 28, 2016) The president-elect seems to offer equal chances of constitutional crisis and utter, debilitating incompetence. Washington Post(Dec 19, 2016) On his first return to America after the October revolution, he got bogged down in a debilitating series of trials for sedition as a communist. The Guardian(Dec 19, 2016) v make weak Syn\|Hypo\|Hyper drain, enfeeble emaciate, macerate, waste cause to grow thin or weak weaken lessen the strength of
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