debilitar
Spanish, verb/debiliˈtaɾ/
debilitar is spelled D-E-B-I-L-I-T-A-R (9 letters) and appears 2.3 times per million words in written Spanish, the 20,593rd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Debilitar is a Spanish verb meaning “to weaken” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Hacer más débil, reducir su fuerza, energía, vigor o firmeza”.
What does debilitar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to weaken
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Hacer más débil, reducir su fuerza, energía, vigor o firmeza.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of debilitar
- debilito first-person present singular
- debilité first-person preterite singular
- debilitado participle past
- debilitando gerund
- debilitada feminine participle past
- debilitados masculine participle past
- debilitadas feminine participle past
- debilitas indicative informal present
- debilitás indicative informal present
- debilita indicative present singular
- debilitamos first-person indicative plural
- debilitáis indicative plural present
- debilitan indicative plural present
- debilitaba first-person imperfect indicative
- debilitabas imperfect indicative second-person
- debilitábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- debilitabais imperfect indicative plural
- debilitaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce debilitar?
- /debiliˈtaɾ/
- [d̪e.β̞i.liˈt̪aɾ]
- [d̪eβ̞iliˈt̪aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to debilitar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is debilitar in Spanish?
debilitar appears 2.3 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).