Word Meanings - DEBILITATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DEBILITATE)

• Enervate
• Weaken
• enfeeble
• unnerve
• deteriorate
• debilitate
• relax
• unstring
• unhinge
• Exhaust
• Empty
• spend
• consume
• waste
• void
• drain
• weaken
• weary
• Paralyze
• Deaden
• benumb
• prostrate
• enervate
• Debilitate
• dilute
• impair
• paralyze
• attenuate
• sap

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DEBILITATE)

• Replenish
• fill
• supply
• pour
• moisten
• drown
• inundate
• drench
• swill

Related words: (words related to DEBILITATE)

• ATTENUATE; ATTENUATED
  1. Made thin or slender. 2. Made thin or less viscid; rarefied. Bacon.
• DILUTENESS
  The quality or state of being dilute. Bp. Wilkins.
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• UNSTRIPED
  Without marks or striations; nonstriated; as, unstriped muscle fibers. (more info) 1. Not striped.
• DRAINE
  The missel thrush.
• SUPPLYMENT
  A supplying or furnishing; supply. Shak.
• SWILLINGS
  See 1
• RELAXANT
  A medicine that relaxes; a laxative.
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• SPENDTHRIFT
  One who spends money profusely or improvidently; a prodigal; one who lavishes or wastes his estate. Also used figuratively. A woman who was a generous spendthrift of life. Mrs. R. H. Davis.
• SPENDER
  One who spends; esp., one who spends lavishly; a prodigal; a spendthrift.
• WASTEBOARD
  See 3
• SWILL
  To drink in great draughts; to swallow greedily. Well-dressed people, of both sexes, . . . devouring sliced beef, and swilling pork, and punch, and cider. Smollett. 3. To inebriate; to fill with drink. I should be loth To meet the rudeness
• PARALYZE
  1. To affect or strike with paralysis or palsy. 2. Fig.: To unnerve; to destroy or impair the energy of; to render ineffective; as, the occurrence paralyzed the community; despondency paralyzed his efforts.
• DROWN
  To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water. Methought, what pain it was to drown. Shak. (more info) be drowned, sink, become drunk, fr. druncen drunken. See Drunken,
• BENUMBED
  Made torpid; numbed; stupefied; deadened; as, a benumbed body and mind. -- Be*numbed"ness, n.
• UNHINGE
  1. To take from the hinges; as, to unhinge a door. 2. To displace; to unfix by violence. Blackmore. 3. To render unstable or wavering; to unsettle; as, to unhinge one's mind or opinions; to unhinge the nerves. Why should I then unhinge my brains,
• EXHAUSTION
  An ancient geometrical method in which an exhaustive process was employed. It was nearly equivalent to the modern method of limits. Note: The method of exhaustions was applied to great variety of propositions, pertaining to rectifications
• IMPAIRMENT
  The state of being impaired; injury. "The impairment of my health." Dryden.
• RELAXATIVE
  Having the quality of relaxing; laxative. -- n.
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• DESPEND
  To spend; to squander. See Dispend. Some noble men in Spain can despend Howell.
• UNWEARY
  To cause to cease being weary; to refresh. Dryden.
• MISSPEND
  To spend amiss or for wrong purposes; to aquander; to waste; as, to misspend time or money. J. Philips.
• WATER DRAIN
  A drain or channel for draining off water.