debility

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If your pain is from nerve compression, a disc issue or joint degeneration, inactivity can cause muscles to tighten, pain to worsen, loss of physical condition and more debility.

From Science Daily • Dec. 15, 2025

Rereading recently the Snopes and Studs Lonigan trilogies, I was struck by their insight into the emotional debility and ruthlessness of socially mobile men.

From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2022

This season, the writers on “Succession” have been playing up the age-related debility and mental fogginess of their crotchety corporate monarch.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 2, 2021

Whence the debility, the infantile degeneration of this imaginary.

From Salon • Jan. 5, 2020

The debility left by an illness is also a condition favoring the occurrence of an attack of the disease in those who are exposed to its exciting cause.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various