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 debilitating [di'biliteitiŋ] 添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 使衰弱的



    debilitating
    [ adj ]
    impairing the strength and vitality
    <adj.all>


    Debilitate \De*bil"i*tate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Debilitated};
    p. pr. & vb. n. {Debilitating}.] [L. debilitatus, p. p. of
    debilitare to debilitate, fr. debilis. See {Debility}.]
    To impair the strength of; to weaken; to enfeeble; as, to
    debilitate the body by intemperance.

    Various ails debilitate the mind. --Jenyns.

    The debilitated frame of Mr. Bertram was exhausted by
    this last effort. --Sir W.
    Scott.

    debilitating \debilitating\ adj.
    causing weakness. Opposite of {invigorating}.
    [WordNet 1.5]

    1. Two protracted, debilitating wars in southwestern Africa could end if agreement among South Africa, Angola, and Cuba leads to a final settlement.
    2. The guinea worm is a debilitating parasite that thrives in impure water and affects people in rural areas of Africa and Asia.
    3. The United Nations is launching a relief program this month to feed more than 1 million Angolans suffering from drought and a debilitating civil war, the U.N. coordinator in Luanda said Wednesday.
    4. When a reporter reminded him of being "The Greatest," Ali responded: "Used to be." Parkinson's syndrome is a treatable form of the incurable, debilitating Parkinson's disease.
    5. Mayor Washington has it within his power to sanction a debilitating primary fight.
    6. "As you are aware, the accusations against me cannot be resolved without a long, divisive and debilitating struggle in the Congress and in the courts," Agnew wrote Nixon.
    7. Mr Mock has won immense sympathy for his tireless campaigning in spite of a debilitating nervous system disease. The referendum result will be known early tomorrow evening.
    8. Norman Cousins, a former magazine editor whose 1979 book, "Anatomy of an Illness," chronicled his comeback from a potentially debilitating disease with the help of humor, said he was pleased by Ljungdahl's findings.
    9. 'There is not prospect for lower interest rates until they cut the deficit.' Greece continues to grapple with a debilitating debt burden which it finances at high interest rates, thus further inflating its growing budget deficit.
    10. There have been several reports of sightings of cereal aphids on newly-planted crops, vectors of a debilitating disease called barley yellow dwarf virus, which may cause loss of yield and quality next harvest.
    11. And at a much earlier age than most of their peers, people with HIV are seeking legal help to prepare wills, arrange for the care of their children, and turn over power-of-attorney in anticipation of debilitating illness.
    12. As baby boomers age and medical advances increase their life span, a larger group of Americans will be at risk of developing the debilitating diseases that rob the elderly of their independence, the researchers said Tuesday.
    13. There are two main groups hurt by race-norming: the applicants whose scores are artificially made to appear lower and the many hard-working, able minorities for whom such treatment is both unwanted and ultimately debilitating.
    14. There is nothing so debilitating as not knowing what is going to happen next when on the road.
    15. The use of shovels and a debilitating gas by soldiers who broke up that protests has caused national outcry.
    16. With his mind fixed on the new Tate Gallery of Modern Art in London, Serota does not want a debilitating drain on his limited funds or time.
    17. Mr. Jackson's power with the trendy electronic media is debilitating for Democrats, sensational for Republicans.
    18. "It's an absolutely debilitating experience.
    19. Doctors and government agencies are looking the other way while alcoholic women, including a disproportionate number of Indians, give birth to thousands of children with debilitating handicaps, a Senate committee was told Monday.
    20. Some, though, are suggesting that Mr Major should wait until the last possible moment in late June before facing the electors. By then his party may have escaped from the debilitating limbo of Maastricht.
    21. She will have to decide whether to pursue the debilitating turf battles, which even the veteran Mrs Hills does not like. She would have enough to do without them.
    22. Share and bond prices rose sharply, reflecting relief that a debilitating period of uncertainty was over.
    23. Their frequent physical absence from Washington is one of the most important, often most debilitating aspects, of the lives of senators and representatives.
    24. With bond prices so depressed, heavily indebted companies are faced with placing huge, sometimes debilitating, interest rates on their bonds.
    25. In the event, two promised items - Jerome Robbins' In the Night and Balanchine's Tchaikovsky pas de deux - did not materialise, and were replaced by quaintnesses which had the debilitating effect of a diet of macaroons.
    26. The screwworm is the larva of a blowfly which infests wounds and apertures like nostrils, breeding there and debilitating warm-blooded animals.
    27. Hungary's debt is the highest per capita in the East bloc at $18 billion and Poland owes a debilitating $39 billion.
    28. A creeping legalistic mentality in the profession will be debilitating to industry and the economy.
    29. "Even so, contemporary black students encounter color-based discrimination in many subtle and debilitating forms, and they suffer the no-less hurtful slights and disparaging assumptions about their abilities that Du Bois endured," it said.
    30. The company has not always leased to the strongest customers and last year, in particular, it faced a debilitating level of early-terminating leases after the Gulf war. But GPA still has the greatest reach among airline leasing companies.
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