Debilitates [verb]

A debilitating pandemic swept through the global economy, upending long-established ways of doing business.

That leads to dementia, a debilitating condition that affects millions of Americans each year.

Chikungunya is a disease that can result in debilitating joint pain.

Extreme humidity from New Orleans to northern Wisconsin will make summers increasingly unbearable, turning otherwise seemingly survivable heat waves into debilitating health threats.

His story also doubles as the suffocating, debilitating nature of the closet itself.

Some people have debilitating illness, while others barely feel sick, if at all.

Taking hot food or drink, habitually, tends to debilitate all the organs thus needlessly excited.

Many suppose that a warm bath exposes a person more readily to take cold; and that it tends to debilitate the system.

He was one of those whom books cannot debilitate, nor a life of study incapacitate for the study of life.

Even tea and coffee, the common beverages of all classes of people, have a tendency to debilitate the digestive organs….