Sentence examples for were debilitated from inspiring English sources
verb
To make feeble; to weaken.
- The American Dream suffered a debilitating effect after the subprime crisis.
People involved in the discussions said military officers, some retired and some still on active duty, held meetings to discuss "an alternative program of government" to be put in place if Mr. Chávez's government were "debilitated," a word understood to mean the president's removal -- preferably, but not only, by constitutional means.
As such, it is suggested that the blood cockles cultured in the Selangor region were debilitated by reproductive activity, and died due to a feeding disorder that was also influenced by low salinity due to the flooding in mid-February.
The FARC were debilitated by the U.S.-funded military offensive against them under former President Alvaro Uribe.
Those effects are documented from 401 BC when Greek soldiers, traveling through modern day Turkey near the Black Sea, indulged in a similar honey and were debilitated with intoxication to today.
At the same time 466 men were debilitated or wounded in action at Gallipoli, and another 254 were wounded during the later campaign, a total of 720 wounded for both campaigns.
Preliminary observations, in particular the distribution and the position related to the coastline, suggested that all animals were debilitated, possibly by a common pathological condition.
Hébert believed that modern conveniences such as elevators were debilitating.
If eye rolls were debilitating, we might never have published.
Iraq is debilitated by civil war.
The point is not to be debilitated by your pleasures.
Cocker was debilitated first by a heroin habit, then alcoholism.
