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What (who) is Weaken - definition
weaken
¦ verb make or become weak.
Derivatives
weakener noun
weaken
(weakens, weakening, weakened)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you weaken something or if it weakens, it becomes less strong or less powerful.
The recession has weakened so many firms that many can no longer survive...
Family structures are weakening and breaking up.
? strengthen
VERB: V n, V
2.
If your resolve weakens or if something weakens it, you become less determined or less certain about taking a particular course of action that you had previously decided to take.
Jennie weakened, and finally relented...
The verdict hasn't weakened his resolve to fight the charges against him.
VERB: V, V n
3.
If something weakens you, it causes you to lose some of your physical strength.
Malnutrition obviously weakens the patient.
VERB: V n
4.
If something weakens an object, it does something to it which causes it to become less firm and more likely to break.
A bomb blast had weakened an area of brick on the back wall...
VERB: V n
weaken
v. a.
1.
Enfeeble, enervate, debilitate, unnerve, make weak.
2.
Invalidate, make of less effect.
3.
Reduce, depress, debase, lower, impair.
Examples of use of Weaken
1. If you weaken the nation state, you weaken democracy." What does that mean for such bodies as the EU?
2. That will further weaken Labour‘s hegemonic grip.
3. "They will further weaken democracy," argues Ret.
4. Few things weaken businesses more than uncertainty.
5. The fear is that any misuse of the symbol would weaken that neutrality and would weaken the [Red Cross]," Ellis said.