How to Use debilitate in a Sentence

debilitate

verb

• The virus debilitates the body's immune system.
• In Alzheimer’s, nerve cells in the brain at some point start to dysfunction, leading to the debilitating symptoms of memory loss.
  — Linda Carroll, NBC News, 1 Nov. 2024
• But that being said, it’s been debilitating for a lot of the artists involved.
  — Chris Lee, Vulture, 23 June 2023
• And yet, in the overall picture of a program’s progress, a loss would not be debilitating.
  — George Schroeder, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2019
• My God, debilitating back pain is the absolute worst pain in the world.
  — Danielle Tullo, House Beautiful, 25 May 2018
• Foremost, how debilitating is the left-knee soreness that kept the 36-year-old point guard out of the final six games before the All-Star break?
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 17 Feb. 2023
• Yet in the heart of Texas the news is not seen as unexpected, or debilitating.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 31 May 2016
• But what about the not-so-glamorous parts, like living with loose skin or debilitating pain?
  — Samantha Lauriello, Health, 3 Nov. 2023
• Prodigious force is required to propel the 245-pound Texas senior skyward, and that sort of strain and joint load can debilitate over time.
  — Nick Moyle, ExpressNews.com, 13 Nov. 2020
• None seems to be worse off than Randall (Sterling K. Brown), who suffers from debilitating anxiety in the lead-up to the birth of his first child.
  — Nicole Briese, People.com, 22 Oct. 2024
• Mandie Moore's young sons have the same debilitating rare disease.
  — Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 9 Sep. 2024
• And, at least for now, enjoy life as an NBA coach without debilitating chest pains.
  — Joe Vardon, cleveland.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• Still, the result remains hard to predict, not least because the debilitating heat wave could drive down turnout.
  — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 July 2023
• But for the singer-songwriter, being so much in the public eye, the wrong hue became debilitating.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 14 Nov. 2023
• The chart-topping vocal star has not been able to drum for years because of debilitating health issues.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Dec. 2023
• Patients often suffer debilitating pain from the skin rash caused by the virus.
  — Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
• Even those who do make it to a doctor can emerge with long-lasting, sometimes debilitating pain.
  — WIRED, 16 Aug. 2023
• Chan, however, defeats them by taking the fight to a bridge, where their heels get wedged into the cracks between the planks, debilitating them.
  — April Wolfe, chicagotribune.com, 22 June 2018
• At the same time, storms like Hurricane Harvey routinely pound Texas, along with debilitating ice storms in the north and crippling droughts that crack roads and pipes.
  — Dug Begley, Houston Chronicle, 11 Apr. 2018
• Extreme and lengthy heat can debilitate bodies; some of the far-reaching effects of extreme heat are already taxing countries in much of the world.
  — Elian Peltier, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2023
• The couple has weathered through Travis’ debilitating stroke that occurred in July 2013 that left him unable to speak or sing.
  — Emily J. Shiffer, Peoplemag, 31 Dec. 2023
• Even if they were released, would the scars of imprisonment debilitate them?
  — Missy Ryan, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2019
• This is an excellent way to get to Sydney without having to spend half your trip with debilitating jet lag.
  — Laura Dannen Redman, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 June 2018
• If left unchecked, these maladaptive thought patterns can lead to debilitating levels of burnout and stress.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
• As a mother, my primary goal is to maintain my health and avoid debilitating crises with the least possible risk.
  — Jennifer Fields, STAT, 8 Dec. 2023
• In addition to the billions in global ticket sales that will be lost, the virus could lead to a domino effect that would debilitate the Chinese film industry for months to come.
  — Adam Epstein, Quartz, 27 Jan. 2020
• Over three quarters of people with MCS said they were debilitated by their symptoms.
  — Kashmira Gander, Newsweek, 16 Mar. 2018
• Last year was Earth’s warmest on record, marked by record flooding in the Bay Area and elsewhere, extreme wildfires and debilitating heatwaves.
  — Bill Magavern, The Mercury News, 14 May 2024
• The queen, who suffered from debilitating gout and severe depression, spends most of her time in a simple nightgown.
  — Brooke Bobb, Vogue, 20 Nov. 2018
• This means that many of the study participants have progressed from having severe, debilitating CVI, to a much more mild form of the disease, or no disease at all.
  — Charlotte Observer, 6 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024