debility

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

At 40, Baudelaire was a shadow of his former self, crushed by unrepayable debts, suffering the aftereffects of a seemingly minor stroke, and facing the onset of syphilitic debility.

From Washington Post ● May 11, 2022

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

Often this has no other cause than debility, with a watery condition of the blood.

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

To really good contemporary artists, however, the debilities inherent to art made in a very small size are merely challenges to be met.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

Among a population of veterans who have a high incidence of mental and physical debilities, some get discouraged and drop out of the process.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2025

But his diagnosis of America’s debilities is more persuasive than his prescriptions to remedy them.

From New York Times ● Nov. 20, 2018

Such debilities can be found in many people with dementia.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 23, 2015

There are situations nevertheless in which a paroxysm of gout has been believed to be desirable, as relieving the patient from other disagreeable diseases, or debilities, or sensations.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin