Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • That has a tendency to debilitate; that causes or tends to cause debilitation.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective causing weakness.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective causing debilitation

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Examples

  • The American Psychologist Association APA has identified a new, debilitative mental disorder today in hopes that patients will seek help.

    New Mental Disease Identified - Warner_Todd_Huston’s blog - RedState 2009

  • MP's publisher, Eileen Tabios, will handwrite all texts into the Tiny Books' pages and books will be released to meet demand for as long as MP is able to source tiny books -- or until the publisher gets arthritis or debilitative carpal tunnel syndrome.

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

  • MP's publisher, Eileen Tabios, will handwrite all texts into the Tiny Books' pages and books will be released to meet demand for as long as MP is able to source tiny books -- or until the publisher gets arthritis or debilitative carpal tunnel syndrome.

    POETRY FEEDS THE WORLD...LITERALLY! 2008

  • MP's publisher, Eileen Tabios, will handwrite all texts into the Tiny Books' pages and books will be released to meet demand for as long as MP is able to source tiny books -- or until the publisher gets arthritis or debilitative carpal tunnel syndrome.

    MORE TINY BOOKS OF POETRY FEEDING THE WORLD ... LITERALLY! 2008

  • MP's publisher, Eileen Tabios, will handwrite all texts into the Tiny Books' pages and books will be released to meet demand for as long as MP is able to source tiny books -- or until the publisher gets arthritis or debilitative carpal tunnel syndrome.

    Archive 2008-10-01 2008

  • MP's publisher, Eileen Tabios, will handwrite all texts into the Tiny Books' pages and books will be released to meet demand for as long as MP is able to source tiny books -- or until the publisher gets arthritis or debilitative carpal tunnel syndrome.

    Archive 2008-04-01 2008

  • MP's publisher, Eileen Tabios, will handwrite all texts into the Tiny Books' pages and books will be released to meet demand for as long as MP is able to source tiny books -- or until the publisher gets arthritis or debilitative carpal tunnel syndrome.

    LET POETRY FEED THE HUNGRY 2008

  • She was alert and oriented but on a ventilator due to a progressive debilitative disease process.

    I Want to Hold Your Hand Mother Jones RN 2007

  • I talked to Mark Windsor (ph), for example, a man who had a very curable form of cancer, but because he didn't have insurance, could not get the care that he needs, and now he's living in a very debilitative state, still alive but barely functional as a result of just not having access to that treatment.

    CNN Transcript Dec 25, 2007 2007

  • GUPTA: And what's your best guess as to why he is in such a debilitative neurological state?

    CNN Transcript Jan 4, 2006 2006

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