With the passing of time, however, metaphor also has a debilitating effect.

They were mentally tired, too, for the trauma had its own special debilitating effect.

Attacks can also cause critical damage, which covers a wide range of debilitating effects.

The debilitating effect cannot be adequately described in this short space.

The veto is likely to have a debilitating effect on America's competitive position.

"There would be immediate debilitating effects" from that, he said.

But the movie is more than a meditation on the debilitating effects of high humidity.

Nonetheless the emotion, whatever its nature, had a curiously debilitating effect.

Many patients turn to a loved one or close friend to help them through the debilitating effects of cancer pain and treatment.

Weariness doesn't help when one is battling its debilitating effect.