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debilitate

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Infernal, it can cause fires and explosions; toxic, it can debilitate, poison, and kill.

Taking hot food or drink, habitually, tends to debilitate all the organs thus needlessly excited.

Many suppose that a warm bath exposes a person more readily to take cold; and that it tends to debilitate the system.

He was one of those whom books cannot debilitate, nor a life of study incapacitate for the study of life.

Even tea and coffee, the common beverages of all classes of people, have a tendency to debilitate the digestive organs….

In such a case diarrhea will no longer serve a good end, but will on the contrary debilitate the system.

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On this page you'll find 75 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to debilitate, such as: attenuate, cripple, disable, eviscerate, blunt, and devitalize.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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