Definition of debilitating
: causing serious impairment of strength or ability to function
- debilitating pain
- a debilitating fear of public speaking
- a debilitating illness
- Thirty years have passed since a vaccine wiped out polio, but some of those who conquered the debilitating disease as children are now experiencing symptoms that seem all too familiar.
- —Fay Knicely
- Several of these drugs are now in clinical testing to determine whether they can reduce or eliminate the debilitating nausea suffered by cancer patients on chemotherapy.
- —Ron Cowen
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debilitatingly
adverb-
- Debilitatingly asthmatic as a child, Scarfe developed his talent while amusing himself and acquired the cynicism for authority that empowers his … drawings and sculpture during many frightening encounters with medical incompetence.
- —Ray Olson
