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Debility

British pronunciation/dɪbˈɪlɪti/
American pronunciation/dəˈbɪɫəti/
Debility
[NOUN]
1

physical weakness that is caused by a disease or aging

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1What it means is researching ways to repair the damage to the cells and functional molecules in our bodies that drives us into disease and debility in old age.
2And also there’s a file for George E. Pickett, who petitioned Congress for political amnesty, to seek the removal of his political debilities that were imposed by the Fourteenth Amendment following the Civil War.
3And if it's framed as an illness, and you often see aging just equated with debility and decline, whereas in fact it is also a period of enormous growth and opportunity.
4This is probably a good thing as the human body is not adapted well for extreme height, and those outliers who do tower over the rest of us often suffer from various pains and other debilities related to their abnormal height as they age.
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