Meanings of debilitate in English

What war left of the railways winter did its best to debilitate.

I will not debilitate the cook; I will not exhaust the fowl- yard.

There wasn't going to be much time before oxygen starvation started to debilitate his reasoning.

Dehydration at these altitudes can soon debilitate the body.

Taking hot food or drink, habitually, tends to debilitate all the organs thus needlessly excited.

It enables nature to recruit its strength; whereas worry and discontent debilitate it, involving constant wear-and-tear.

I've also had a headache ever since, a constant headache that would probably debilitate most people.

Conflicts leave behind deep scars which can divide and debilitate a country for decades and even longer.

This crisis will not debilitate our country.

Yet this did not debilitate him.

This vision haunts me strangely, and I do feel more heavy and debilitate than I have been wont.

Its manifestations everywhere cripple political will, debilitate the collective urge to change, and poison national and religious relationships.

Many suppose that a warm bath exposes a person more readily to take cold; and that it tends to debilitate the system.

His exertions in advocating the compromise measures, his official labors, and the increased severity of his annual hay-fever,-allcontributed to debilitate him.

Worry, grief, fatigue, household cares, loss of sleep, social debauches, emotional sprawls-alldebilitate the mother, and usually decrease the flow of milk.

Ambiguities could debilitate for an extended period if new legislation has to be tested in court and driven by the establishment of precedent.