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debilitate
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  • The physical injuries were lasting, debilitating, and sometimes deadly.†  (source)
  • The trials of my youth instilled a debilitating self-doubt.†  (source)
  • We've been trying to understand why in you, there's no debilitating effect.†  (source)
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  • Seth was a dying old man, hit with a debilitating and deadly cancer that left him weak and feeble.†  (source)
  • And the other four Sherpas on our team were too cold and debilitated from having gone to the summit.†  (source)
  • And Behrens did not neglect to note that, under such circumstances, one could not entirely dismiss the risk of chronic debilitation in even the most robust constitution.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
  • He keeps his gaze locked on mine in his debilitating eye-hold while he stretches.†  (source)
  • The poor were already severely debilitated by hunger and had no protection from the cold, since they could not possibly afford fuel.†  (source)
  • Even in the grip of agonizing pain or complete debilitation, most jockeys clung to their illusion of invulnerability.†  (source)
  • Cancer, heart disease, and most debilitating illnesses are almost entirely eradicated.†  (source)
  • He turned on hearing a noise, and perceiving me, shrieked loudly, and quitting the hut, ran across the fields with a speed of which his debilitated form hardly appeared capable.†  (source)
  • There were several ailments, less life-threatening than the cancers, that were thought by many doctors — and by most of the people who were subject to them — to have resulted from exposure to the bomb: several sorts of anemia, liver dysfunction, sexual problems, endocrine disorders, accelerated aging, and the not-quite-really-sick yet undeniable debilitation of which so many complained.†  (source)
  • If not for the adrenaline flooding my system, the pain would've been totally debilitating.†  (source)
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