What is "debilitating"

Usage examples of "debilitating".

Even the use of a temporarily debilitating narcotic drug could be interpreted by the Cetacea as the use of violence.

It is then necessary that all of the vital energies should be employed in effecting a recovery from disease, without having the additional tax imposed of overcoming the debilitating effects of sexual expenditure.

Likewise, our highly esteemed Bruno Kronk not only gives the most strenuous and most exquisitely debilitating massages on the North American continent, but he also is to robotic-monkey repair what Jackie Chan is to martial-arts movies.

The man had porphyria, a most debilitating affliction that ultimately ruined his health and rendered him mad as a hatter.

A terrible fear, as disorienting as the flu and as debilitating as a cataclysmic case of the squitters, was enveloping him.

Respecting all these diseases of special organs, it is evident that any complication, and particularly one that is debilitating or causes irritation of the nervous system will increase its severity.

Finally, with the exception of the desert areas of northwest Iraq, the conditions of central Iraq are not as harsh and debilitating as those of the Kuwaiti Theater, meaning that Iraqi military personnel would likely feel any deprivations less immediately or powerfully than was the case in 1991.

White Castle also suffered annoying and debilitating shortages in nonfood commodities.

Too, in this culture, where there were such men, I did not think there was any real danger of susceptibility to the debilitating, antibiological pathologies of Earth.

And Ernie's nyctophobia was certainly preferable to coitophobia (the fear of sexual intercourse), and not a fraction as debilitating as autophobia (the fear of oneself).

The roots were atrociously slippery, his left leg dangled uselessly, and his arms and back were badly burnt, debilitating the boosted muscles.

This caused debilitating vertigo and extreme tinnitus, or a roaring in the ears, all culminating in a rupture of the anterior inferior cerebellar artery and causing hemorrhaging into the anterior and middle cranial fossae inside the base of the skull.

They said my "destiny was deliriously and dolorously determined by deepseated demons dramatically and detrimentally defined as debilitating FEAR.

Any lesser man would have already succumbed to the debilitating pain of his degenerative disease.

For a year Perec had been afflicted by Epstein-Barr virus, a debilitating form of glandular fever, and had only just returned to the track.