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View synonyms for debility
debility
[ dih-bil-i-tee ]
noun
, plural de·bil·i·ties.
- a weakened or enfeebled state; weakness:
Debility prevented him from getting out of bed.
- a particular mental or physical disability.
debility
/ dɪˈbɪlɪtɪ /
noun
- weakness or infirmity
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He feared she might not rally again; that the extreme debility might prevent it: and he said as much to Hyde in private.
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I tried Sanatogen on a woman suffering from extreme neurasthenia and debility.
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His health was such that he could take no solid food; sleep had left him; his debility was extreme.
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Used immoderately, it exhausts both the mental and bodily powers, and produces great debility.
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The last and hardest trial of all—long debility and frequent illness—had failed to shake this intense serenity.
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