Letter D

Debilitate

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To impair the strength or to enfeeble.

A chronic progressive disease may debilitate a patient.

So may, temporarily, a major surgical procedure.

In both cases the weakness is pervasive.

Weakness in an arm or leg following the removal of a cast is not debility.

The word 'debilitate' comes from the Latin word 'debilis' for 'weak.

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