debilitation

The word “debilitation” has 5 syllables: de-bil-i-ta-tion

It's pronounced as /dɪˌbɪlɪˈteɪʃən/


What is synonym and antonym for debilitation?

In the thesaurus, “debilitation” has 59 synonyms and 37 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for debilitation along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for debilitation

  • asthenia
  • atrophy
  • breakdown
  • collapse
  • damage
  • debility
  • decay
  • decaying
  • declension
  • decline
  • decrepitude
  • defenselessness
  • degeneration
  • delicacy
  • depletion
  • descent
  • deterioration
  • devitalization
  • disablement
  • drooping
  • ebbing
  • effeteness
  • enervation
  • enfeeblement
  • exhaustion
  • faintness
  • fatigue
  • feebleness
  • flagging
  • fragility
  • frailness
  • frailty
  • harm
  • helplessness
  • hurt
  • impairment
  • impotence
  • impuissance
  • incapacitation
  • infirmity
  • injury
  • invalidism
  • languidness
  • languor
  • lassitude
  • limping
  • listlessness
  • lowness
  • powerlessness
  • prostration
  • regression
  • relapse
  • setback
  • softness
  • tenderness
  • weakening
  • weakness
  • weariness
  • wimpiness

Antonyms for debilitation

  • brawniness
  • comeback
  • energy
  • fitness
  • hardihood
  • hardiness
  • hardness
  • health
  • healthiness
  • heftiness
  • huskiness
  • improvement
  • invigoration
  • liveliness
  • lustiness
  • muscularity
  • progress
  • rally
  • recovery
  • recuperation
  • rehabilitation
  • rejuvenation
  • rejuvenescence
  • revitalization
  • robustness
  • ruggedness
  • snapback
  • soundness
  • stoutness
  • strength
  • strengthening
  • sturdiness
  • toughness
  • vigor
  • virility
  • vitality
  • wellness

Example Sentences

  • The debilitation caused by the disease left him bedridden and in need of constant care.
  • The study aimed to understand the debilitation of chronic pain on daily activities.
  • His prolonged illness led to significant debilitation, affecting his ability to work and socialize.
  • The debilitation from the severe injury required months of rehabilitation and therapy.
  • The research focused on the debilitation effects of mental health disorders on cognitive function.

On this page you'll find 96 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to debilitation, such as: asthenia, atrophy, brawniness, breakdown, collapse, comeback, damage.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

ebbing

  • abatement
  • abating
  • alleviating
  • at end of rope
  • atrophy
  • atrophying
  • backsliding
  • breaking down
  • ceasing
  • ceasing to exist
  • closing
  • collapsing
  • comedown
  • compressing
  • concluding
  • condensing
  • constricting
  • contracting
  • corrupting
  • cropper
  • crumbling
  • de-escalating
  • debilitating
  • debilitation
  • decay
  • decaying
  • declension
  • declinatory
  • decline
  • decline and fall
  • declining
  • decomposing
  • decreasing
  • decrepitude
  • decrescent
  • deflating
  • degeneracy
  • degenerating
  • degeneration
  • degrading
  • dematerialization
  • departure
  • depreciating
  • descending
  • descent
  • desertion
  • desisting
  • deteriorating
  • deterioration
  • devolution
  • devolving
  • dilapidating
  • diminishing
  • diminution
  • disappearing act
  • discontinuing
  • disintegrating
  • disintegration
  • dispersal
  • dissipation
  • dissolution
  • dive
  • done for
  • doomed
  • downfall
  • downgrade
  • downsizing
  • downturn
  • drooping
  • drop
  • dropping
  • dwindling
  • dying
  • dying down
  • easing
  • ebb
  • eclipse
  • ending
  • enfeeblement
  • escape
  • evanescence
  • evaporating
  • evaporation
  • exhaustion
  • exit
  • exodus
  • expiring
  • fade-out
  • fading
  • fading away
  • failing
  • failure
  • fall
  • fall-off
  • falling
  • falling away
  • falling-off
  • fated
  • final
  • finishing
  • flagging
  • flight
  • flop
  • giving out
  • giving up the ghost
  • going
  • going to pot
  • going to seed
  • in extremis
  • lagging
  • languishing
  • lapse
  • lapsing
  • leaving off
  • lessening
  • letting up
  • lightening
  • limping
  • losing momentum
  • loss
  • lowering
  • melting
  • moderating
  • moldering
  • moribund
  • mortal
  • narrowing
  • on last leg
  • on the skids
  • one foot in grave
  • palling
  • passing
  • perishing
  • phasing down
  • plummeting
  • plunging
  • pratfall
  • putrefying
  • quieting
  • quitting
  • receding
  • recession
  • reducing
  • regressing
  • regression
  • relapse
  • relaxing
  • relenting
  • remitting
  • removal
  • retirement
  • retrograding
  • rotting
  • running down
  • running to seed
  • sagging
  • senility
  • setback
  • settling
  • shrinking
  • shriveling up
  • sinking
  • skids
  • slackening
  • sliding
  • slipping
  • slowing
  • slump
  • slumping
  • softening
  • souring
  • spoiling
  • stopping
  • subsiding
  • tapering
  • tapering off
  • terminating
  • toppling
  • tottering
  • tumbling
  • undermining
  • vanishing
  • wane
  • waning
  • wasting
  • weakening
  • wearing away
  • wearing down
  • wearing off
  • wilting
  • winding up
  • withdrawal
  • withering
  • worsening

quadriplegia

faintness

  • Achilles heel
  • appetite
  • asthenia
  • blemish
  • breakdown
  • burnout
  • chink in armor
  • collapse
  • damage
  • debilitation
  • debility
  • decay
  • decrepitude
  • defenselessness
  • deficiency
  • delicacy
  • disablement
  • disease
  • dullness
  • dysequilibrium
  • effeteness
  • enervation
  • enfeeblement
  • ennui
  • exhaustion
  • failing
  • fatigation
  • fatigue
  • fault
  • feebleness
  • flaw
  • foible
  • fondness
  • fragility
  • frailness
  • frailty
  • gap
  • giddiness
  • harm
  • heaviness
  • helplessness
  • hurt
  • impairment
  • imperfection
  • impotence
  • impuissance
  • incapacitation
  • inclination
  • inconstancy
  • indecision
  • infirmity
  • injury
  • instability
  • invalidism
  • invalidity
  • irresolution
  • lack
  • languidness
  • languor
  • lapse
  • lassitude
  • lethargy
  • lightheadedness
  • liking
  • listlessness
  • lowness
  • malaise
  • overtiredness
  • passion
  • penchant
  • powerlessness
  • predilection
  • proclivity
  • prostration
  • senility
  • shortcoming
  • sickliness
  • soft spot
  • softness
  • sore point
  • taste
  • tenderness
  • unhealthiness
  • unsteadiness
  • vertigo
  • vice
  • vitiation
  • vulnerability
  • weakness
  • weariness
  • wimpiness
  • wooziness

lameness

effeteness

  • asthenia
  • breakdown
  • collapse
  • damage
  • debilitation
  • debility
  • decay
  • decrepitude
  • defenselessness
  • delicacy
  • disablement
  • disease
  • effeminacy
  • enervation
  • enfeeblement
  • etiolation
  • exhaustion
  • faintness
  • fatigue
  • feebleness
  • femaleness
  • femininity
  • feminity
  • flimsiness
  • fragility
  • frailness
  • frailty
  • girlhood
  • girlishness
  • harm
  • helplessness
  • hurt
  • impairment
  • impotence
  • impuissance
  • inability
  • inadequacy
  • incapacitation
  • incapacity
  • incompetence
  • ineffectualness
  • infirmity
  • infirmness
  • injury
  • insignificance
  • insufficiency
  • invalidism
  • lameness
  • languidness
  • languor
  • lassitude
  • listlessness
  • lowness
  • maidenhood
  • malaise
  • muliebrity
  • powerlessness
  • prostration
  • senility
  • sickliness
  • softness
  • tenderness
  • unhealthiness
  • weakness
  • weariness
  • wimpiness
  • womanhood
  • womanishness
  • womanliness

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