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  • noun Plural form of debilitation.

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Examples

  • At a time when we're drowning in dispatches about the various debilitations of Britney, Lindsay, Amy and Paris, news about the death of Oscar-nominated actor Ledger seemed to hit us from a pop culture blind spot.

    Eric Deggans: Amid Heath Ledger Fallout, Has Media Ignored Young Male Stars in Crisis? 2008

  • I recently was reading an excerpt from a sugar cane plantation owner's diary in which he was arguing that white people, even the lower classes of Irish workers, were unable to bear the dangers and debilitations of the cane fields, and that Africans were uniquely suited to the tasks, and could be replaced more easily if they died from the rigors of the labor.

    Let's take a closer look at Ron Paul. Ann Althouse 2007

  • GREGORY: I think it was a great encouragement to the sick, the elderly, that illnesses, and debilitations don't rob us of our dignity.

    CNN Transcript Apr 7, 2007 2007

  • GREGORY: I think it was a great encouragement to the sick, the elderly, that illnesses, and debilitations don't rob us of our dignity.

    CNN Transcript Apr 8, 2007 2007

  • We all know that Coulter is very much in favor of the continuing debilitations of the War on Drugs, an activity that lines the pockets of the greedy and grasping all the way from the White House on down.

    Coulter's War: Ann Coulter acknowledges the covert NeoCon war on Americans 2006

  • The poorest Americans die and suffer lifelong debilitations in their thousands.

    "the soldiers can choose to stop fighting" 2006

  • Almost never mentioned is that many injuries include loss of limbs, brain and severe psychological damage and pain and other debilitations that will scar those affected and their families for the rest of their lives if after treatment and recovery they even survive.

    Omissions In the Iraq Study Group Report 2006

  • His ability to overcome the bodily debilitations already made Favre the stuff of legend.

    USATODAY.com - For toughness over time, Brett Favre is No. 1 2004

  • These injuries, rarely discussed, include loss of limbs, brain damage and other debilitations that will scar those affected by them for the rest of their lives if after treatment and recovery they even survive.

    Imperialism 101 - The US Addiction to War, Mayhem and Madness - Part II 2006

  • Almost never mentioned is that many injuries include loss of limbs, brain and severe psychological damage and pain and other debilitations that will scar those affected and their families for the rest of their lives if after treatment and recovery they even survive.

    Omissions In the Iraq Study Group Report 2006

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