debilitationn.
/dɪbɪlɪˈteɪʃən/ The action of debilitating; debilitated condition; weakening.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > [noun] > weakening or decline in health
failinga1382
sickeninga1382
wasting1398
downhielda1400
dissolutionc1400
debilitationa1492
defailing1502
effeeblishing1540
faintingc1540
effeeblishment1545
enervationa1575
feeblishing1574
declining1588
decay1609
flagging1611
labefaction1620
feebling1624
sinking1625
deading1645
dejection1652
fail1654
emperiment1674
decline1770
sapping1825
breakdown1858
attenuation1868
the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > [noun] > weakness of immaterial things > becoming weak
debilitation1875
the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > intonation, pitch, or stress > [noun] > accent > stress accent > weakening
weakening1869
debilitation1876
a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitas Patrum (1495) ii. f. ccxlvii/2 Some sykenes or debylytacyon of his bodye.
1524 in State Papers Henry VIII (1836) IV. 93 For the debilitacion and discomfort of thenemye.
1645 Bp. J. Hall Remedy Discontentm. v. 25 How often doth sicknesse prevent the debilitations of age.
1875 C. Lyell & L. Lyell Princ. Geol. (ed. 12) I. i. ix. 168 The debilitation of the subterranean forces.
1876 T. Le M. Douse Grimm's Law §10. 19 An accelerated phonetic debilitation.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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