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Meanings of adynamic in English

Lacking strength or vigor.

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        Characterized by an absence of force or forcefulness.

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            Examples for "debilitated"
            1
            Both sexes may be overly fat or weakened and debilitated by disease.
            Common Diseases of Farm Animals
            2
            This contributed to the scarcity of dollars that has debilitated the peso.
            Reuters
            3
            No, it was not such food as their weakened, debilitated systems craved.
            History of the Donner Party: A Tragedy of the Sierra
            4
            A troubled half hour's sleep followed, from which he awoke much debilitated.
            Ellen Walton / Or, The Villain and His Victims
            5
            I'd hate to suggest that sherry is a drink for the debilitated.
            The Irish Times
            1
            It may be that you are becoming enervated; I do not know.
            The Lost Continent
            2
            They are sometimes enervated by it: that must be in continental countries.
            The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative
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            He had been too long enervated by indulgence to make a fight.
            Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Volume 2
            4
            The storm passes without breaking: but you wake heavy, cheated, enervated, disheartened.
            Jean-Christophe, Volume I
            5
            The world is no place for the bad, the stupid, the enervated.
            The sleeper awakes
            1
            No one will deny that fear is the type of asthenic manifestations.
            The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10
            2
            There are situated the salt-works; and there, at the beginning of the rainy season, tertian fevers prevail, and easily degenerate into asthenic fevers.
            Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of Amer...
            3
            To those who walk or stand in this fashion, let it be known that this is the "habitus enteroptoticus," or asthenic droop.
            How to Live: Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science
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            * (* Exciting or debilitating, the sthenic and asthenic, of Brown's system.)
            Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of Amer...
            5
            "Tch, tch," DeCastros said, "can anyone really be so asthenic as you seem, Mr.
            The Marooner
            Usage of adynamic in English
            1
            It had left him as adynamic as had his mother's death.
            Birthright: A Novel
            2
            If during this process negative electrons hold the preponderance in the body, the fever is of a feeble, adynamic type.
            Valere Aude: Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regen...
            3
            However, very low serum parathyroid hormone levels have been associated with decreased bone mineral density, adynamic bone disease, and fractures.
            Pubmed
            4
            At will, then, through diminished, normal, or excessive administration of thyroid secretion, we may produce an adynamic, a normal, or an excessively dynamic state.
            The Origin and Nature of the Emotions; Miscellaneous Papers
            Adynamic through the time