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      • debilitate verb [ T ] formal uk / dɪˈbɪl.ɪ.teɪt / us / dɪˈbɪl.ə.teɪt / to make someone or something physically weak: Chemotherapy exhausted and debilitated him.
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  2. 1. If you are debilitated by something such as an illness, it causes your body or mind to become gradually weaker. [formal] [...] 2. To debilitate an organization, society, or government means to gradually make it weaker. [formal] [...] More. Pronunciations of 'debilitate' American English: dɪbɪlɪteɪt British English: dɪbɪlɪteɪt. More.

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  3. Jul 30, 2011 · What exactly does it mean to "be yourself?" Posted July 30, 2011|Reviewed by Ekua Hagan. Key points. The effort to "be yourself" does not mean one should deny or not fix their...

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    You probably didn’t start hating yourself out of nowhere. One possibility is that your self-hatred may be a natural reaction to a traumaticevent. Humans have a great need to make sense of things. When a traumatic event happens, we desperately want an explanation. But maybe you couldn't make sense of why the trauma happened. In lieu of a better expl...

    If you track your self-hatred back in time, another possibility is that you might find its origin in someone else’s opinion. For clarity, let’s call that person “Bob.” Bob might have been your parent, your peer, your lover, or even a group of people. At some point in your life, Bobwas critical, harsh, and belittling to you. Bob may have had a way o...

    At this point, your negative assessment of yourself is probably quite robust. You have likely reinforced this self-assessment daily with data from your life. Cue the reel of your top ten most embarrassing and shameful moments! Time to feed the self-loathinggremlin! You may have gotten so comfortable with this negative narrative that when someone ob...

    People who hate themselves tend to believe that they are worse than others—particularly pathetic when measured against the rest of humankind. The problem with this is that it's easy to get drawn into a trap of "specialness." Other people deserve compassion. Other people deserve kindness. Not you, because you’re special. Special bad. Realistically, ...

    You likely don’t want to use self-compassion as a way of excusing bad behavior. You want to use it as a tool to help transform yourself into a healthy person. So let’s take a good hard look at this: What if your self-hatred isjustified? What if, after neutrally assessing your behavior, you still don’t line up with your idea of a medium-good person?...

  4. To debilitate an organization, society, or government means to gradually make it weaker. [ formal ] ...their efforts to debilitate the political will of the Western alliance.

  5. verb [ T ] formal uk / dɪˈbɪl.ɪ.teɪt / us / dɪˈbɪl.ə.teɪt / Add to word list Add to word list. to make someone or something physically weak: Chemotherapy exhausted and debilitated him. Synonyms. drain. enfeeble formal. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Becoming and making less strong. abatement. adulterant. adulterated. dull. ease.

  6. There are two meanings listed in OED's entry for the verb debilitate, one of which is labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

  7. debilitate something to make a country, an organization, etc. weaker. Prolonged strike action debilitated the industry. Definition of debilitate verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

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