Debilitating - English meaning

adjective

Causing a person to become unable to walk or move properly.

Usage examples:

A crippling disease

adjective

Causing a severe and almost insuperable problem.

Usage examples:

Interest rates rose to a crippling 13 per cent

verb

Cause severe and disabling damage to; deprive of the ability to function normally.

Usage examples:

Developing countries are crippled by their debts

verb

Deprive of strength and vigour.

Usage examples:

Technological progress has given enormous power to humanity, but at the cost of devitalizing the sp…

verb

If body tissue is devitalized, it is weak or no longer living, for example because of disease or injury

Usage examples:

Devitalize tissue the wound is cleaned, and all dirt and loose devitalized tissue is removed., mali…

verb

If food is devitalized, it has been prepared or treated in a way that removes most or all of its nutrients (= natural substances that are needed for good health)

Usage examples:

White bread and white rice have had their germ and bran removed and they are also devitalized and e…

verb

Cause the water or other liquid in (something) to run out, leaving it empty or dry.

Usage examples:

We drained the swimming pool

noun

A channel or pipe carrying off surplus liquid, especially rainwater or liquid waste.

Usage examples:

The room's toilet pipes and shower drains carry this waste to a holding tank.

noun

A thing that uses up a particular resource.

Usage examples:

Nuclear power is a serious drain on the public purse

adjective

Causing one to feel drained of energy or vitality.

Usage examples:

The enervating humidity of the coast

verb

Make (someone) feel drained of energy or vitality.

Usage examples:

The heat enervated us all

adjective

Causing you to feel weak and lacking in energy

Usage examples:

We found it enervating to work in the humid jungle heat.

verb

Make weak or feeble.

Usage examples:

Sickness had enfeebled me

verb

Present participle of enfeeble

verb

To make someone or something very weak

adjective

Making one feel very tired; very tiring.

Usage examples:

A long and exhausting journey

verb

Make (someone) feel very tired.

Usage examples:

Her day out had exhausted her

adjective

Making you feel extremely tired

Usage examples:

The pace of twelve-hour days, seven days a week proved exhausting.

verb

Weaken or damage (something, especially a faculty or function).

Usage examples:

A noisy job could permanently impair their hearing

verb

Present participle of impair

Usage examples:

A recurring knee injury may have impaired his chances of winning the tournament.

adjective

Causing a person or part of the body to become partly or wholly incapable of movement.

Usage examples:

The snake's paralysing venom

verb

Cause (a person or part of the body) to become partly or wholly incapable of movement.

Usage examples:

Mrs burrows had been paralysed by a stroke

noun

Causing someone to lose the ability to move or feel

Usage examples:

Paralysing drugs are administered, along with anaesthesia., it can can lead to the full-blown paral…

verb

Gradually weaken or destroy (a person's strength or power).

Usage examples:

Our energy is being sapped by bureaucrats and politicians

verb

Dig a sap or saps.

Usage examples:

Having sapped up to the glacis of the city ramparts, versaillais troops entered the city

verb

Hit with a bludgeon or club.

Usage examples:

It was nice to see someone else get sapped for a change

adjective

Causing one to need rest or sleep; fatiguing.

Usage examples:

It had been a tiring day

verb

Feel or cause to feel in need of rest or sleep.

Usage examples:

Soon the ascent grew steeper and he began to tire

adjective

Causing you to feel you have no energy

Usage examples:

Dad had a tiring day at work.

verb

Make or become weaker in power, resolve, or physical strength.

Usage examples:

Fault lines had weakened and shattered the rocks

adjective

Mentally or physically tiring.

Usage examples:

It would be a lot less wearing if we could work together amicably

verb

Have (something) on one's body as clothing, decoration, or protection.

Usage examples:

He was wearing a dark suit

verb

Bring (a ship) about by turning its head away from the wind.

Usage examples:

Shannon gives the order to wear ship