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    DEBILITY

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    The state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age)play

    Synonyms:

    debility; feebleness; frailness; frailty; infirmity; valetudinarianism

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

    softness; unfitness (poor physical condition; being out of shape or out of condition (as from a life of ease and luxury))

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "debility"):

    asthenia; astheny (an abnormal loss of strength)

    cachexia; cachexy; wasting (any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease)

    Derivation:

    debile (lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality)

    debilitate (make weak)

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