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debilitate

 verb
     
de‧bil‧i‧tate [transitive] formal
1 to make someone ill and weak
2 to make an organization or system less effective or powerful:
Progress has been debilitated by a refusal to share ideas.
—debilitating adjective:
a debilitating disease
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