debilitate

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

DEBIL'ITATE, verb transitive To weaken; to impair the strength of; to enfeeble; to make faint or languid. Intemperance debilitates the organs of digestion. Excessive indulgence debilitates the system.
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