A study of the effect of common viruses on serious disease will be negative (you won't die from a cold), but those same viruses are disastrous when given to severely debilitated persons.

Richard knew that, over time, constant exposure to even mildly chilly wet weather could steal enough vital heat from the body to severely debilitate and sometimes even kill a person.

Seventy-eight of the 400 or so slaves on board died during the back-and-forth, which also severely debilitated the survivors.

Toward the end of his life, he was in a near-fatal automobile accident, which left him severely debilitated.

Some of the most severely debilitated Neyel patients had been transported back to Excelsior for more intensive treatment than the medics could provide on-site.

For much of his adult life, Charles Darwin's health was repeatedly compromised by an uncommon combination of symptoms, leaving him severely debilitated for long periods of time.

Like Rush, he thought poisons had to be "abstracted" in severely debilitated patients.

Min Naing's 1933 date for Ba Zaw's selection as chairman of the BAC is at odds with the 1932 date (given by others) of the stroke which severely debilitated him.

This at a time when a new managing director, Mark Volpe, awaits installation next month, with his immediate predecessor, Kenneth Haas, severely debilitated by a heart attack.

Severely debilitated, he went into semi-retirement and moved to his dacha in Gorki.