Definitions for debilitate

debilitate de·bil·i·tate

Spelling: [dih-bil-i-teyt]
IPA: /dɪˈbɪl ɪˌteɪt/

Debilitate is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 352 anagrams from letters in debilitate (abdeeiiltt).

Definitions for debilitate

verb (used with object)

  1. to make weak or feeble; enfeeble:

Origin of debilitate

1525-35; Latin dēbilitātus (past participle of dēbilitāre), equivalent to dēbilit-, stem of dēbilis weak + -ātus -ate1

Examples for debilitate

This is to prevent the free escape of water, which might debilitate the starch-making cells.

Indulgence, however, should not be too frequent, lest it debilitate the pair and undermine their health.

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

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

Of course that kind o' work tends to debilitate the best kind o' money.

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

Not even the heaviest thunder showers seem to debilitate their kinetic ardour.

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

I will not debilitate the cook; I will not exhaust the fowl-yard.

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

Word Value for debilitate
Scrable

13

Words with friends

15

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