DEBILITATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does debilitation mean? 

• DEBILITATION (noun)
  The noun DEBILITATION has 1 sense:

1. serious weakening and loss of energy

  Familiarity information: DEBILITATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEBILITATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Serious weakening and loss of energy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

debilitation; enervation; enfeeblement; exhaustion

Hypernyms ("debilitation" is a kind of...):

weakening (becoming weaker)

Derivation:

debilitate (make weak)

 Context examples 

This disease usually results from debilitation (as in immunosuppression and especially AIDS), physiologic change, prolonged administration of antibiotics, and iatrogenic and barrier breakage.

(Oropharyngeal Candidiasis, NCI Thesaurus)