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debilitate | dibílitèit |
make someone or something physically weak;
to become less strong or powerful or to make someone or something less or powerful;
to become less certain or determined decision, or to make someone less determined;
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Verbs 1. be weak, faint, drop, crumble, droop, sag, fade, fail, flag, pine, decline, languish, give way, give in, deteriorate, waste, falter, halt, limp; black out; soften, relent, relax, yield, submit, succumb, totter, tremble, dodder, potter, shake, have one foot in the grave. Colloq., keel over, cave in. Verbs 2. weaken, enfeeble, enervate, emasculate, devitalize, take the edge off, take the starch out of, wear down; deplete, WASTE; bate, soften up, slacken, blunt; disintensify; undermine, sap, impair, damage, cripple, lame, maim, disable, paralyze. Verbs 3. dilute, thin, cut, water (down), attenuate, adulterate, debase; reduce, depress, lower, lessen, impoverish, invalidate. |
衰弱(スイジャク)させる、 弱体化(ジャクタイカ)させる |
zayıflatmak (ザイフラトゥマク) güçsüzleştirmek (ギュチェスズレシュティルメク) |
Chemotherapy exhausted and debilitated him.
Even the volumes that had not been damaged during shipment were threatened, for they now faced the debilitating humidity of their new, tropical home.
State and society have been debilitated by the former's lack of legitimacy and by cumulative onslaughts on the economy and societal integrity.
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destroy | distrɔ́i |
to damage something so badly that it does not exist or cannot be used;
to damage something, esp. in a violent way, so that it can no longer be used or no longer exists;
to kill an animal because it is ill, in pain, or dangerous |
1. do or make away with, exterminate, kill off, nullify, annul (See nullification); obliterate, eradicate, stamp or wipe out, sacrifice, demolish, dismantle (See useless); tear up or down, overturn, overthrow, overwhelm, disrupt, upset, subvert, put an end to, seal the doom of; break up, cut up, break, cut, pull, mow, or beat down; cut short, take off, blot out; dispel, consume, burn out or up, disorganize, play or raise havoc with, Slang, total.
2. Perish, fall (to the ground); tumble, topple, (See descent), go or fall to pieces, break up, crack up, crumble to dust; go to smash, pot, or wreck, go to the dogs, go to the wall, go to wrack and ruin; go by the board, go all to smash; be all up or over with; cook one’s goose; totter to its fall; (self-)destruct.
3. Smash, dash, quell, squash, squelch, crumple up, shatter, shiver (See brittleness); tear, cut, crush, pull, or pick to pieces; nip (in the bud); ruin; strike out; throw or knock down, lay low; fell, sink, swamp, scuttle, wreck, shipwreck, engulf, submerge; lay in ashes or ruins; sweep away, eradicate, erase, expunge; raze, level, Slang. Trash.
4. deal destruction, lay waste, ravage; gut; swallow up, devour, desolate, devastate, sap, mine, blast, bang up; sabotage; extinguish, quench; annihilate; snuff, put, or stamp out; trample under foot; make short work of, make a clean sweep of, make mincemeat of; cut up root and branch; fling or scatter to the winds, throw overboard; strike at the root of, sap the foundations of, spring a mine, blow up.
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損(ソコ)なう、 完全(カンゼン)に使(ツカ)えなくする、 破壊(ハカイ)する、 荒廃(コウハイ)させる、 打(ウ)ち砕(クダ)く、 廃止(ハイシ)する、 終(オ)わらせる、 〔動物(ドウブツ)などを〕殺(コロ)す、 打(ウ)ち破(ヤブ)る、 台無(ダイナ)しにする |
yıkmak(ユクマク)、
yok etmek(ヨク エトメク)、
yerle bir etmek(イェトレ ビル エトメク) |
Many works of art were destroyed in the fire.;
Most of the old part of the city was destroyed by bombs during the war.;
The accident seemed to have completely/totally destroyed his confidence.;
You can use a shredder to destroy old bank statements. |
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