DEBILITATING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does debilitating mean? 

• DEBILITATING (adjective)
  The adjective DEBILITATING has 1 sense:

1. impairing the strength and vitality

  Familiarity information: DEBILITATING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEBILITATING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Impairing the strength and vitality

Similar:

debilitative; enervating; enfeebling; weakening (causing debilitation)

draining; exhausting (having a debilitating effect)

Antonym:

invigorating (imparting strength and vitality)

 Context examples 

A highly invasive form of electroanalgesia mainly used in the management of debilitating chronic pain syndromes after all other less invasive therapeutic modalities (including SCS) have failed.

(Deep Brain Stimulation, NCI Thesaurus)

Chronic, progressive, debilitating and non-reversible fibrosis of the submucosal tissues of the mouth.

(Oral Cavity Submucous Fibrosis, NCI Thesaurus)

They can be especially debilitating in teenagers and often disrupt everyday activities, such as school, music and sports.

(Innovative Treatment Offers Relief to Children with Frequent Migraine Headaches, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Researchers have developed a blood test that can detect signs of Alzheimer’s as much as 20 years before the disease begins to have a debilitating effect.

(New Alzheimer’s Blood Test Could Detect Signs of Symptoms Decades Earlier, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A debilitating tiredness or total lack of energy, often reported as the most common symptom in individuals with cancer.

(Cancer Fatigue, NCI Thesaurus)

The debilitating behaviours and all-consuming thoughts, which affect people with severe obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), could be significantly improved with targeted deep brain stimulation.

(Deep brain stimulation may significantly improve OCD symptoms, University of Cambridge)

Debilitating long-term neurological problems or even death may occur.

(Tick salivary glands can be a tool to study virus transmission and infection, National Institutes of Health)

The project may pave the way for the development of more effective painkillers for the treatment of this debilitating chronic condition, which afflicts approximately 500 million people throughout the world.

(Genetic study paves way for new neuropathic pain treatments, University of Granada)

The WHO says debilitating problems associated with air pollution begin at conception and continue until adolescence.

(WAir Pollution a Health Risk for Children, Lisa Schlein/VOA)

Emphysema is a debilitating disease, and people with emphysema have difficulty breathing along with a persistent cough and phlegm.

(Study finds link between long-term exposure to air pollution and emphysema, National Institutes of Health)