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
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
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
On the 18th of November he sank into a state of extreme debility; yet he lingered till the 26th, when he expired without a sigh, leaving property to the amount of four millions of dollars.
From Curiosities of Human Nature by Anonymous
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
Diseases and debilities of the reproductive organs, are by the same means equally benefited, but in these cases galvanism in some form is often required to effect a complete cure.
From Turkish and Other Baths A Guide to Good Health and Longevity by Gordon Stables
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