debilitate
Drain of vigor
To debilitate is to weaken or drain of strength and vitality.
Illness debilitates the body; chronic stress debilitates the mind.
The adjective debilitating describes conditions that sap energy or function: a debilitating disease, debilitating anxiety.
Something debilitated has been reduced to a weakened state: The economy was debilitated by years of mismanagement.
Plant circulatory fluid
- enervateTo drain of strength
- drainChannel for wastewater
- exhaustUse up entirely
- undermineWeaken by stealth
deplete · attenuate · erode · diminish · incapacitate · cripple · devitalize · prostrate
Disorder impairing normal function
- infectionPathogen invasion causing illness
- maladyA bodily affliction
- ailmentMinor health problem
- sicknessBodily disorder or disease
fever · virus · chronic · bedridden · hospitalize · convalescence · relapse · affliction
Lack of strength
- fragilityEase of breaking
- decrepitudeWornness from age
- atrophyWasting from disuse
- wastingUsing poorly, inefficiently
emaciation · deterioration · decline · withering · infirmity · delicacy · brittleness · senescence
State of utter depletion
- wearinessState of being drained
- lethargyAbnormal drowsiness and apathy
- tirednessState of needing rest
- burnoutChronic occupational depletion
prostration · listlessness · languor · torpor · sluggishness · enervation · spent · drained
Liability to influence
- exposureState of being unprotected
- defenselessnessState of being unprotected
- helplessnessLacking ability to cope
- frailtyWeakness of body
compromised · immunocompromised · at-risk · predisposition · sensitivity · precariousness · endangerment · unprotected
Sustained experience of distress
- agonyExtreme physical or emotional pain
- tormentSevere prolonged suffering
- anguishIntense mental suffering
- distressSevere anxiety or suffering
discomfort · misery · affliction · ache · soreness · incapacitating · excruciating · throbbing
sap
Plant circulatory fluid
undermine · deplete · attenuate · erode · diminish · incapacitate · cripple · devitalize · prostrate · unnerve
disease
Disorder impairing normal function
sickness · fever · virus · chronic · bedridden · hospitalize · convalescence · relapse · affliction · malaise
feebleness
Lack of strength
- fragilityEase of breaking
- decrepitudeWornness from age
- atrophyWasting from disuse
wasting · emaciation · deterioration · decline · withering · infirmity · delicacy · brittleness · senescence · cachexia
exhaustion
State of utter depletion
burnout · prostration · listlessness · languor · torpor · sluggishness · enervation · spent · drained · fatigued
susceptibility
Liability to influence
- exposureState of being unprotected
- defenselessnessState of being unprotected
- helplessnessLacking ability to cope
frailty · compromised · immunocompromised · at-risk · predisposition · sensitivity · precariousness · endangerment · unprotected
suffering
Sustained experience of distress
- agonyExtreme physical or emotional pain
- tormentSevere prolonged suffering
- anguishIntense mental suffering
distress · discomfort · misery · affliction · ache · soreness · incapacitating · excruciating · throbbing
- undermineweaken, erode, sabotage, subvert, destabilize
- deterioratedecay, rot, deteriorate, decompose, corrode
debilitateinvigorate
To fill with energy
energize · strengthen · vitalize · revitalize · rejuvenate
debilitateheal
Restore to wellness
cure · restore · mend · rehabilitate · recuperate
debilitated, debilitating, debilitation, debilitates, debilitatingly