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