debilitating

debilitating

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /dɪˈbɪlɪteɪtɪŋ(ɡ)/
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Adjective

debilitating (comparative more debilitating, superlative most debilitating)

  1. Causing a loss of energy or strength.
    • 1931, H.P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness:
      Akeley, Noyes hastened to inform me, was glad and ready to see me; although his sudden attack of asthma would prevent him from being a very competent host for a day or two. These spells hit him hard when they came, and were always accompanied by a debilitating fever and general weakness.
    • 2025 October 20, Lucy Mangan, “My OCD is back. It's exhausting and awful, but this time I'm ready”, in The i Paper‎[1], archived from the original on 3 November 2025:
      All of which is to say – my OCD is back. For those of you who have not had the displeasure, OCD stands for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and it is an absolute arseache. Again, at best. Utterly debilitating and life-ruining at worst.

Derived terms

Collocations

Nouns often used with "debilitating"
  • illness, effect

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Verb

debilitating

  1. present participle and gerund of debilitate
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