debilitate
音标：
美音：/dɪˈbɪlɪteɪt/，英音：/dɪˈbɪlɪteɪt/
听听基本释意：
外刊例句：
Her injuries, which sent her to an emergency room and are still debilitating, show what can happen during a dangerous crowd crush.
她的伤势将她送进了急诊室，并且仍然使人虚弱，这表明在危险的人群挤压期间会发生什么。
—Washington Post
But international calls for accountability have mounted as deadly assaults in recent weeks helped debilitate Ukraine’s electricity supplies as the cold sets in.
但国际社会要求追究责任的呼声越来越高，因为最近几周发生的致命袭击导致乌克兰的电力供应因寒冷而变得脆弱。
—New York Times
Prof Whitmarsh suggests that while there are high levels of concern about climate change, particularly in young people, most people do not have debilitating climate anxiety that requires treatment by a mental health professional.
Whitmarsh 教授建议，虽然人们对气候变化的担忧程度很高，尤其是在年轻人中，但大多数人并没有需要心理健康专家治疗的令人衰弱的气候焦虑。
—BBC
基本释意：
verb
make weak
vt. 使衰弱；使虚弱
同义词：
drain,enfeeble
短释义：
To debilitate something is to make it weaker. A bad flu may debilitate your powers of concentration, like the New Year’s resolutions that temporarily debilitate bakeries’ business.
削弱某物就是使它变得更弱。一场严重的流感可能会削弱你的专注力，就像新年的决议会暂时削弱面包店的生意。
长释义：
The verb debilitate traces back to the Latin word debilis, meaning “lame, disabled, crippled.” It’s often used to describe what disability or illness does to a person’s health, but it can describe anything that has been weakened, like the sense of community that is slowly debilitated by people working longer hours and the lack of sidewalks that in many towns make it harder to walk around and meet the neighbors.
动词 debilitate 可以追溯到拉丁语 debilis，意思是“瘸腿、残疾、残废”。它通常用于描述残疾或疾病对一个人的健康造成的影响，但它可以描述任何被削弱的事物，例如人们长时间工作而逐渐削弱的社区意识，以及许多城镇缺乏人行道造成的社区意识。更难四处走动并与邻居见面。
文学例句：
More debilitating mathematically than ineffective or insufficient education are psychological factors.
在数学上比无效或不充分的教育更使人衰弱的是心理因素。
—Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences by John Allen Paulos
Her diseases are usually tropical and debilitating, but only occasionally deadly.
她的疾病通常是热带疾病和使人衰弱的，但只是偶尔致命。
—Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina García
Pitezel had long been a heavy drinker, but his drinking must have become debilitating, for it was Holmes who sent him to Keeley and paid for his treatment.
皮特泽尔长期以来一直是个酗酒者，但他的酗酒肯定让他变得虚弱，因为是福尔摩斯把他送到基利并支付了他的治疗费用。
—The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
词源：
debilitate (v.)"weaken, impair the strength of, enfeeble, make inactive or languid," 1530s, from Latin debilitatus, past participle of debilitare "to weaken," from debilis "weak, helpless," from de "from, away" (see de-) + -bilis "strength," from PIE root bel- "strong" (see Bolshevik). Related: Debilitated; debilitating.Related entries & more
下面是词源的翻译（机器翻译比较难翻，参考着看）
debilitate (v.)“弱化，削弱力量，衰弱，使不活跃或疲倦”，1530 年代，源自拉丁语 debilitatus，debilitare 的过去分词“削弱”，源自 debilis “软弱，无助”，源自 de “来自，远离" （见 de-）+ -bilis “力量”，来自 PIE 词根 bel- “强”（见布尔什维克）。相关：虚弱；衰弱。相关条目及更多
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