The American Dream suffered a debilitating effect after the subprime crisis.
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Debilitate
//dəˈbɪləteɪt//
Synonyms for "debilitate" (110 found)
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24 translations across 17 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- омаломощавам verb (to make feeble; to weaken)
- отслабвам verb (to make feeble; to weaken)
Czech
1 entries- oslabit verb (to make feeble; to weaken)
Dutch
1 entries- verzwakken verb (to make feeble; to weaken)
Finnish
1 entries- heikentää verb (to make feeble; to weaken)
French
1 entries- débiliter verb (to make feeble; to weaken)
German
3 entries- an den Kräften zehren verb (to make feeble; to weaken)
- entkräften verb (to make feeble; to weaken)
- schwächen verb (to make feeble; to weaken)
Greek
1 entries- αποχαυνώνω verb (to make feeble; to weaken)
Icelandic
1 entries- veikja verb (to make feeble; to weaken)
Ido
1 entries- debiligar verb (to make feeble; to weaken)
Japanese
1 entries- 弱化する verb (to make feeble; to weaken)
Latin
1 entries- debilito verb (to make feeble; to weaken)
Māori
1 entries- whakangoikore verb (to make feeble; to weaken)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- svekke verb (to make feeble; to weaken)
- svekkes verb (to make feeble; to weaken)
Norwegian Nynorsk
4 entries- svekkast verb (to make feeble; to weaken)
- svekke verb (to make feeble; to weaken)
- svekkjast verb (to make feeble; to weaken)
- svekkje verb (to make feeble; to weaken)
Russian
1 entries- ослабля́ть verb (to make feeble; to weaken)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- lagaich verb (to make feeble; to weaken)
Spanish
1 entries- debilitar verb (to make feeble; to weaken)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
Twice, they found themselves behind, seemingly on their way out, and on both occasions they absolutely refused to let their lack of numbers debilitate them.
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