Weaken (Verb)
Meaning 1
Lessen in force or effect; "soften a shock"; "break a fall".
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Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..
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Meaning 2
Reduce the level or intensity or size or scope of; "de-escalate a crisis".
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Meaning 3
Destroy property or hinder normal operations; "The Resistance sabotaged railroad operations during the war".
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Verbs of political and social activities and events.
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Meaning 4
Become weaker; "The prisoner's resistance weakened after seven days".
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Meaning 5
Lessen the strength of; "The fever weakened his body".
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- Stultify
- Attenuate
- Thin Out
- Season
- Negate
- Mollify
- Castrate
- Thin
- Drain
- Devitalise
- Cut
- Reduce
- Nullify
- Moderate
- Neutralise
- Debilitate
- De-energise