debilitating

Examples of debilitate

debilitate
Even the volumes that had not been damaged during shipment were threatened, for they now faced the debilitating humidity of their new, tropical home.
State and society have been debilitated by the former's lack of legitimacy and by cumulative onslaughts on the economy and societal integrity.
This age corresponds with the development of extra-hepatic collaterals, which may provide a route for the passive migration of adult worms debilitated by anthelminthics.
However, in the same way as pathological fear and anxiety are debilitating, excessive sickness behaviour can be detrimental.
This failure to measure up is acutely painful and, at times, debilitating.
This may be due to the ageing of the population overtime, and due to better survival of people with chronic debilitating conditions.
While insults can be more unpleasant than injuries, the capacity to trade gibes does not imply debilitating pain.
However, in the same way as pathological fear and anxiety are debilitating, excessive or prolonged sickness behaviour may be deleterious.
People debilitated by malnutrition will be all the more susceptible to disease whether known or new.
Animals which are debilitated, less active and less aggressive on the one hand but also less able to assess risk will be more vulnerable.
Malodorous wounds can have psychological effects as well as being debilitating physically.
There is a parallel opposition between rigorous, healthy market forces and lax, debilitating governmental assistance and regulation.
One study showing the debilitating results of loss of control occurred almost inadvertently, as the aftereffect of an earlier research project.
If true, this would be a dangerous and debilitating trend.
In a variety of forums, information is provided to prospective parents that a sizeable percentage of institutionalized children have seriously debilitating problems.
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