transcription, транскрипция: [ dɪbɪlɪteɪt ]
( debilitates, debilitating, debilitated)
1.
If you are debilitated by something such as an illness, it causes your body or mind to become gradually weaker. ( FORMAL )
Stewart took over yesterday when Russell was debilitated by a stomach virus.
VERB : usu passive , be V-ed by n
• de‧bili‧tat‧ing
...a debilitating illness.
ADJ
• de‧bili‧tat‧ed
Occasionally a patient is so debilitated that he must be fed intravenously.
ADJ
2.
To debilitate an organization, society, or government means to gradually make it weaker. ( FORMAL )
...their efforts to debilitate the political will of the Western alliance.
VERB : V n
• de‧bili‧tat‧ing
...years of debilitating economic crisis.
ADJ
• de‧bili‧tat‧ed
...the debilitated ruling party.
ADJ