DEBILITATE in a Sentence

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Michael's severe bout of the flu might debilitate him so much that he was too tired to go to work for a week.

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 Meanings and Examples of DEBILITATE
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debilitate
 v.  make weak; enfeeble; impair the strength of
Classic Sentence:
1  It is thus that human weakness fails, from its debilitated and imperfect organs.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 48. Ideology.
2  He turned on hearing a noise, and perceiving me, shrieked loudly, and quitting the hut, ran across the fields with a speed of which his debilitated form hardly appeared capable.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
3  I forgit myself when I take such an interest in your breakfast, as to wish your frame, exhausted by the debilitating effects of prodigygality, to be stimilated by the 'olesome nourishment of your forefathers.'
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LVIII
Example Sentence:
1  Michael's severe bout of the flu might debilitate him so much that he was too tired to go to work for a week.
2  The troops were severely debilitated by hunger and disease.
3  Parkinson's disease is a debilitating and incurable disease of the nervous system.