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单词 debilitating
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debilitatingn.

Etymology: -ing suffix1.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: deˈbilitating.
Enfeeblement, debilitation.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > [noun] > weakening or decline in health > making weak
enfeebling1503
debilitating1539
unstringing1824
1539 Elyot in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. i. II. 117 I no thing gate but the Colike and the Stone, debilitating of Nature.
1765 Universal Mag. 37 237/2 The debilitating of the affected part.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

debilitatingadj.

Etymology: -ing suffix2.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: deˈbilitating.
That debilitates; weakening, enfeebling.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased > weak > making weak
weakeninga1586
feebling1624
languefying1651
debilitating1674
debilitative1682
depauperating1770
adynamical1798
enervating1821
prostrating1822
adynamous1828
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1674 R. Godfrey Var. Injuries in Physick Pref. Their poisonous and debilitating Methods.
1805 W. Saunders Treat. Mineral Waters (ed. 2) 500 A long and debilitating sickness.
1865 D. Livingstone & C. Livingstone Narr. Exped. Zambesi vi. 143 The..debilitating effects of the climate.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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