Usually means: Weaken, reduce strength or effectiveness.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. debilitate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. debilitate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. debilitate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. debilitate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. debilitate: Vocabulary.com
  6. debilitate: Wordnik
  7. debilitate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. debilitate: Wiktionary
  9. debilitate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. debilitate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. debilitate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. debilitate: Dictionary.com
  13. Debilitate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. debilitate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. debilitate: Rhymezone
  16. Debilitate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. debilitate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. debilitate: Free Dictionary
  19. debilitate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. debilitate: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. debilitate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. debilitate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Debilitate: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  2. debilitate: Medical dictionary
  3. Debilitate: Drug Medical Dictionary

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verb:  (transitive) To make feeble; to weaken.

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