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debile

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6 lettersPronunciation /dɛˈbiːl/Part of speech adjectiveSorted bdeeilStarts with DEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality

Word origin

From Middle French débile (“weak”), from Latin dēbilis.

Used in a sentence

  • So, then, it was no surprise to the ranchhold when the buckboard spun to the door, and Raidler took up his debile protégé like a handful of rags and set him down upon the gallery.
  • Being a little debile and unclear of mind he did not realize the risks he was running by passing all his nights in the same bed as the daughter, while he himself was suffering continually from a dammed-up sexual drive.
  • Cretins are debile, hard of hearing, and small in stature.

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