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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Debilitate \De*bil"i*tate\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Debilitated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Debilitating}.] [L. debilitatus, p. p. of debilitare to debilitate, fr. debilis. See {Debility}.] To impair the strength of; to weaken; to enfeeble; as, to debilitate the body by intemperance.
Various ails debilitate the mind. --Jenyns.
The debilitated frame of Mr. Bertram was exhausted by this last effort. --Sir W. Scott.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
debilitated \debilitated\ adjective
1. lacking strength or vigor; weakened.
Syn: adynamic, asthenic, enervated. [WordNet 1.5]
2. weakened due to illness.
Syn: enfeebled, infirm, seedy. [WordNet 1.5]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
debilitated
adjective
1: lacking strength or vigor [syn: {adynamic}, {asthenic}, {enervated}]
2: weak and feeble; "I'm feeling seedy today" [syn: {enfeebled}, {infirm}, {seedy}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
170 Moby Thesaurus words for "debilitated": anemic, anile, apathetic, asthenic, benumbed, blase, bloodless, bored, cachectic, castrated, chicken, cowardly, crabbed, dead, decrepit, demasculinized, devitalized, doddered, doddering, doddery, dopey, dormant, drained, drooping, droopy, drugged, dull, effeminized, effete, emasculate, emasculated, enervated, enfeebled, etiolated, eunuchized, exanimate, exhausted, fagged, failing, faint, fainting, faintish, fatigued, feeble, feeling faint, flabby, flaccid, flagging, floppy, footsore, fossilized, frail, frazzled, gelded, gerontal, gerontic, gone, good and tired, gutless, healthless, heavy, hebetudinous, imbecile, impotent, in poor health, inanimate, inert, infirm, invalid, jaded, lackadaisical, languid, languishing, languorous, leaden, lethargic, lifeless, limber, limp, listless, lumpish, lustless, marrowless, moribund, mossbacked, moth-eaten, mummylike, nerveless, numb, pale, palsied, papery-skinned, peaked, peaky, phlegmatic, pithless, pooped, powerless, ravaged with age, ready to drop, reduced, reduced in health, rickety, rubbery, run ragged, run to seed, run-down, rusty, sagging, sapless, sated, seedy, senile, shaky, shriveled, sickly, sinewless, slack, sleepy, slow, sluggish, soft, somnolent, spineless, stagnant, stagnating, strengthless, stricken in years, stultified, supine, timeworn, tired, tired-winged, toilworn, torpid, tottering, tottery, unhardened, unhealthy, unmanned, unnerved, unrefreshed, unrestored, unsexed, unsound, unstrung, valetudinarian, valetudinary, vegetable, vegetative, wan, way-weary, wayworn, weak, weakened, weakly, wearied, weariful, weary, weary-footed, weary-laden, weary-winged, weary-worn, wilting, with low resistance, withered, wizened, world-weary, worn, worn-down
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