Debilitate

Definition: Debilitate

Debilitate

Verb

1. Make weak; "Life in the camp drained him".

Note: Debilitate \De*bil"i*tate\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Debilitated; present participle verb or noun Debilitating.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Debilitate

Synonyms: drain (v), enfeeble (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Weakness	Render weak; Adjective: weaken, enfeeble, debilitate, shake, deprive of strength, relax, enervate, eviscerate; unbrace, unnerve; cripple, unman; (render powerless); cramp, reduce, sprain, strain, blunt the edge of; dilute, impoverish; decimate; extenuate; reduce in strength, reduce the strength of; mettre de l'eau dans son vin.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Debilitate

English words defined with "debilitate": Abirritate. (references)

Specialty definitions using "debilitate": scale insects. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Debilitate" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Romanian (adynamia, debility, feebleness, frailty, infirmity, sinking).

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Guinea	However, new taxes threaten to debilitate or destroy Internet service providers so the future of Internet in Guinea is unclear. (references)
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Language		Translations for "debilitate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		dobësoj (attenuate, depauperate, depress, devitalize, dilute, dim, diminish, dull, emaciate, emasculate, enervate, enfeeble, impair, reduce, use up, weaken), molis (enfeeble, make weak). (various references)

Arabic		‏وهن (asthenia, attenuate, attenuation, damp, dampen, debility, decay, discouragement, distemper, droop, enervate, enfeeble, extenuate, feebleness, imitators, infirmity, invalidate, languish, languishment, languor, pall, relax, sap, shrivel, sickliness, thin, weak spot, weaken, weaklings), ‏أضعف (attenuate, break, decay, decline, depress, detach, diminish, disable, emaciate, emasculate, enervate, enfeeble, fade, geld, hone, hurt, impair, incapacitate, invalidate, jellify, languish, lose weight, macerate, neutralize, pall, perish, reduce, run down, sag, sap, shorten, sink, slacken, slake, soften, subside, thin, waste, weaken). (various references)

Bulgarian		омаломощявам (enervate, overpower). (various references)

Czech		oslabit (blunt, disable, disenable, emasculate, enfeeble, impair, weaken). (various references)

Farsi		ناتوان کردن (Disable, Enervate, Invalid), ضعیف کردن (Fray, Sap, Unnerve, Weaken). (various references)

Finnish		heikentyä (enfeeble, impair, weaken). (various references)

French		débiliter (decline, devitalize). (various references)

German		entkräften (break, devitalize, disable, enervate, enfeeble, exhaust, invalidate, paralyze, rebut, refute, to devitalize, to enfeeble, to invalidate, to rebut, weaken, wear out). (various references)

Greek		καταβάλλω (bear down, defeat, defray, exert, overbear, overcome, overpower, overwhelm, quash, quell, subdue, vanquish). (various references)

Hungarian		elgyöngít (to debilitate). (various references)

Indonesian		mengurangi tenaga, melemahkan (enervate, enfeeble, weaken). (various references)

Italian		debilitare (weaken). (various references)

Manx		annooinaghey (enfeeble, enfeeblement). (various references)

Pig Latin		ebilitateday.(various references)

Portuguese		debilitar (attenuate, crock, depress, enervation, enfetter, etiology, impair, impoverish, languish, unbrace, undermine, unnerve, weaken). (various references)

Romanian		debilita (weaken), slãbi (abate, attenuate, Bate, crock, depauperate, diminish, drain, droop, dull, ease, emaciate, emasculate, enfeeble, extenuate, fade, fail, flag, go down, grow weak, impair, languish, let, loosen, lose flesh, lose weight, macerate, mine, peak and pine, pinch, pull down, reduce, relax, sap, sink, slack, slacken, slenderize, slim, soften, subdue, subside, take the edge off, thin, undermine, weaken). (various references)

Russian		ослаблять (abate, allay, attenuate, dilute, diminish, ease off, emasculate, enfeeble, extenuate, impair, loosen, reduce, relax, relieve, slacken, unbrace, unloose, weaken). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		oslabiti (become weak, devitalize, enervate, enfeeble, go to the dogs, lose weight, relax, relieve, unfix, weaken), iznuriti (beat out, drain, fag, jade, run down, tell on, wear out). (various references)

Spanish		debilitar (abate, devitalize, enervations, enfeeble, impair, lay out, lower, soften, waste, weaken, weaknesses). (various references)

Swedish		försvaga (attenuate, bring low, depress, devitalize, dilute, diminish, emasculate, enervate, enfeeble, impair, reduce, sap, unnerve, weaken). (various references)

Turkish		zayıflatmak (cripple, damp down, emaciate, emasculate, enervate, evirate, fade, impair, impoverish, reduce, slim, soften, thin down, thin of, thin out, weaken, wear away, wear down), güçten düşürmek. (various references)

Ukranian		розслаблювати (emolliate), виснажувати (attenuate, crock, depauperate, deplete, distress, drain, emaciate, exhaust, impoverish, macerate, overcome, overdrive, prostrate, pull down, sap, use up, waste), ослабляти (abate, allay, attenuate, deaden, depress, emasculate, enfeeble, extenuate, impair, infirm, let down, loosen, lower, overcome, relax, slack, slacken, subdue, unbind, water, weaken). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "debilitate": debilitated, debilitates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Debilitate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dabilitate, debilitrate, dibilitate, dibillitate. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "debilitate" (pronounced dubi"lutā't)
8	-u b i" l u t ā' t	rehabilitate.
6	-i" l u t ā' t	facilitate, militate.
4	-u t ā' t	acetate, agitate, amputate, annotate, cogitate, decapitate, gravitate, hesitate, imitate, incapacitate, irritate, levitate, meditate, necessitate, precipitate, premeditate, resuscitate, vegetate.
3	-t ā' t	devastate, downstate, mutate, overstate, potentate, prostate, punctate, rotate, tristate, understate.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-e-i-i-l-t-t"
	-2 letters: editable, tableted.
	-3 letters: abetted, alibied, battled, belated, blatted, bleated.
	-4 letters: aedile, albeit, albite, bailed, bailee, bailie, baited, batted, battle, beadle, belied, belted, betide, betted, bitted, debate, delate, detail, dilate, edible, elated, ideate, letted, tabled, tablet, tailed, teated, tibiae, tibial, tidbit, tilted, titled.
	-5 letters: abele, abide, ailed, alibi, atilt, baled, bated, bedel, belie, betel, betta, biali, bidet, bield, blade, blate, bleat, bleed, blite, dealt, debit, delta, edile, elate, elide, elite, ideal, iliad, lated, latte, litai, tabid, table, teiid, telae, telia, tibia, tidal, tilde, tiled, title.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-e-i-i-l-t-t"
	+1 letter: debilitated, debilitates.
	+3 letters: delectability, detectability, deterrability, extendability, rehabilitated.
	+4 letters: detonabilities.
	+5 letters: creditabilities, delectabilities, detachabilities, detectabilities, deterrabilities, extendabilities, extrudabilities.
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