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| Main Entry: | debilitate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | incapacitate |
| Synonyms: | attenuate, blunt, cripple, devitalize, disable, enervate, enfeeble, eviscerate, exhaust, extenuate, harm, hurt, injure, mar, prostrate, relax, sap, spoil, undermine, weaken, wear out, unbrace, unstrengthen |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, cure, energize, help, invigorate, mend, strengthen |
| Main Entry: | attenuate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | weaken |
| Synonyms: | abate, constrict, contract, cripple, debilitate, deflate, disable, dissipate, enfeeble, extenuate, lessen, mitigate, sap, shrink, thin, undermine, vitiate |
| Antonyms: | expand, increase, intensify, strengthen |
| Main Entry: | blunt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make dull |
| Synonyms: | attenuate, benumb, cripple, dampen, deaden, debilitate, desensitize, disable, enfeeble, numb, sap, soften, undermine, water down, weaken, hebetate, obtund, take the edge off |
| Antonyms: | needle, point, sharpen |
| Main Entry: | cripple |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | disable; make lame |
| Synonyms: | attenuate, blunt, debilitate, disarm, dismember, enfeeble, hamstring*, hurt, incapacitate, injure, lame, maim, mangle, mutilate, paralyze, prostrate, sap, sideline*, stifle, undermine, weaken, dislimb, immobilize, palsy, unstrengthen |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, enable, help, strengthen, support |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | debase |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | degrade, shame |
| Synonyms: | abase, cheapen, corrupt, cripple, debauch, debilitate, demean, demoralize, deprave, devalue, disable, disgrace, dishonor, enfeeble, humble, humiliate, lower, put away, put down, reduce, sap, sink, take down*, undermine, weaken, bemean, cast down, devaluate, drag down*, dump on, fluff off, shoot down, take down a peg |
| Antonyms: | elevate, honor, laud, praise, upgrade, value |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | demoralize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | depress, unnerve |
| Synonyms: | abash, blow up, chill, cripple, damp, dampen, daunt, debilitate, deject, disarrange, disconcert, discountenance, discourage, dishearten, disorder, disorganize, disparage, disturb, embarrass, enfeeble, jumble, muddle, nonplus, rattle, sap, shake, snarl, undermine, unsettle, unzip, upset, weaken, blow out, dispirit, get to*, psych out, send up*, take apart, take steam out, unglue, unman |
| Antonyms: | boost, comfort, encourage, uplift |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | depress |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | deject, make despondent; exhaust |
| Synonyms: | abase, afflict, ail, bear down, beat, bother, bug*, chill*, cow*, damp, dampen, darken, daunt, debase, debilitate, degrade, desolate, devitalize, discourage, dishearten, dismay, distress, disturb, drag*, drain, dull, enervate, faze, lower, mock, mortify, oppress, perturb, press, put down*, reduce, run down*, sadden, sap*, scorn, slow, torment, trouble, try, upset, weaken, weary, weigh down*, beat down*, bum out, cast down, dispirit, keep under, reduce to tears, throw cold water on, turn one off |
| Antonyms: | cheer, comfort, encourage, excite, lift, stimulate, make happy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | deteriorate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | decay, degenerate |
| Synonyms: | adulterate, alloy, break, corrode, corrupt, crumble, debase, debilitate, decline, decompose, degrade, deprave, depreciate, descend, disintegrate, ebb, fade, fail, fall apart, flag, go to pieces*, impair, injure, languish, lapse, lessen, lower, mar, pervert, regress, retrograde, retrogress, rot, sink, skid, slide, spoil, undermine, vitiate, weaken, worsen, be worse for wear, become worse, disimprove, go downhill, go to pot, go to the dogs, hit the skids, lose it, lose quality, wear away |
| Notes: | to degenerate means 'to decline in value, move lower on a scale' but to deteriorate means 'to worsen, to become lowered, or be reduced in value'; degenerate pertains more to character and virtue while deteriorate is more about loss of strength or vitality |
| Antonyms: | build, construct, develop, improve, get better |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | disable |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | render inoperative; cripple |
| Synonyms: | attenuate, batter, blunt, damage, debilitate, disarm, disqualify, enervate, enfeeble, exhaust, hamstring*, handicap, harm, hock*, hurt, impair, incapacitate, invalidate, kibosh*, knock out*, maim, mangle, mar, mutilate, muzzle, paralyze, prostrate, ruin, sabotage, sap, shatter, spoil, total*, undermine, unfit, weaken, wreck, disenable, hogtie*, immobilize, pinion, put out of action, render incapable, shoot down*, take out*, throw monkey wrench in, unbrace, unstrengthen |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, enable, help, improve |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | disarm |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | render defenseless |
| Synonyms: | conciliate, cripple, deactivate, debilitate, demobilize, disable, disband, disqualify, incapacitate, invalidate, neutralize, occupy, pacify, paralyze, prostrate, skin, strip, subdue, subjugate, weaken, deescalate, demilitarize, unarm |
| Antonyms: | arm |
| Main Entry: | drain |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | remove liquid; remove supply |
| Synonyms: | abate, bankrupt, bleed, consume, debilitate, decrease, deplete, devitalize, diminish, dissipate, divert, draft, dry, empty, evacuate, exhaust, expend, fatigue, finish, get rid of, impoverish, lessen, milk*, pump, quaff, reduce, sap, siphon, spend, strain, suck, swallow, tap, tax, waste, wear, wear down, weary, withdraw, bleed dry, catheterize, draw off, drink up, filter off, free from, get last drop, gulp down, pump out, suck dry, tire out, use up |
| Antonyms: | fill, pour |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | emasculate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | weaken, deprive of force |
| Synonyms: | alter, debilitate, devitalize, enervate, fix*, impoverish, vitiate |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, help |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | enervate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tire, wear out |
| Synonyms: | debilitate, devitalize, disable, enfeeble, exhaust, fatigue, incapacitate, paralyze, sap, unnerve, vitiate, weaken, weary, jade |
| Antonyms: | activate, animate, empower, energize, invigorate, strengthen, liven |
| Main Entry: | enfeeble |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make very weak |
| Synonyms: | attenuate, blunt, cripple, debilitate, deplete, devitalize, diminish, disable, exhaust, fatigue, incapacitate, sap, undermine, unhinge, unnerve, weaken, wear out |
| Antonyms: | strengthen |
| Main Entry: | exhaust |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tire or wear out |
| Synonyms: | bankrupt, burn out*, cripple, debilitate, disable, do in*, drain, draw, enervate, enfeeble, fatigue, frazzle, impoverish, overdo, overwork, peter out*, prostrate, sap*, weaken, wear down, weary, conk out*, fag, overexert, overextend, overfatigue, overtire, poop, poop out*, run ragged, suck dry, tucker*, use up |
| Antonyms: | animate, invigorate, refresh |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fatigue |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tire, wear out |
| Synonyms: | burn out*, bush*, debilitate, deplete, disable, drain, droop, drop, enervate, exhaust, fizzle, flag, knock out*, languish, peter out*, prostrate, sag, sink, succumb, take, weaken, wear down, weary, bedraggle, conk out*, fag, jade, overtire, poop, poop out*, tucker |
| Antonyms: | energize, refresh, envigorate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hamstring |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | disable |
| Synonyms: | cripple, debilitate, handicap, hinder, hobble, impair, lame, maim, mangle, paralyze, weaken, immobilize |
| Main Entry: | impair |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | harm, hinder |
| Synonyms: | blemish, blunt, cheapen, damage, debase, debilitate, decrease, destroy, deteriorate, devalue, diminish, ding*, disqualify, enervate, enfeeble, hurt, injure, invalidate, lessen, mar, prejudice, queer, reduce, rough up*, spoil, tarnish, total, tweak, undermine, unfit, vitiate, weaken, worsen, devaluate, lose strength, make useless |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, help |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | paralyze |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | immobilize |
| Synonyms: | appall, arrest, astound, bemuse, benumb, close, daunt, daze, deaden, debilitate, demolish, destroy, disable, disarm, enfeeble, freeze, halt, incapacitate, knock out, lame, nonplus, numb, petrify, prostrate, shut down, stun, stupefy, transfix, weaken, anesthetize, bring to grinding halt, make inert, make nerveless, palsy, stop dead |
| Antonyms: | incite, mobilize, stimulate |
| Main Entry: | prostrate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | overwhelm; wear out |
| Synonyms: | cripple, debilitate, defeat, destroy, disable, disarm, drain, drown, exhaust, fatigue, fell, floor, frazzle*, impair, incapacitate, level, mow*, overcome, overpower, overthrow, overturn, paralyze, reduce, ruin, sap, tire, weary, wreck, bring low, immobilize, knock over, overtire, tucker out, whelm |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, assuage, help, please, soothe |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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