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debility

[dih-bil-i-tee] / dɪˈbɪl ɪ ti /


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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

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

Also described is robust creative defiance in the face of debility and mortality.

From New York Times • Jul. 13, 2016

They are chiefly feelings of great debility, fever, delirium, violent passion alternating with deep despondency.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)




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