debilitate Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb make weak
    enfeeble; drain.
    • Life in the camp drained him

WordNet

De*bil"i*tate transitive verb
Etymology
L. debilitatus, p. p. of debilitare to debilitate, fr. debilis. See Debility.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Debilitated; present participle & verbal noun Debilitating
Definitions
  1. To impair the strength of; to weaken; to enfeeble; as, to debilitate the body by intemperance.
    Various ails debilitate the mind. Jenyns.
    The debilitated frame of Mr. Bertram was exhausted by this last effort. Sir W. Scott.

Webster 1913