Definition of weaken

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Weaken (v. t.) To make weak; to lessen the strength of; to deprive of strength; to debilitate; to enfeeble; to enervate; as, to weaken the body or the mind; to weaken the hands of a magistrate; to weaken the force of an objection or an argument..

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Fatigue :: Fatigue (n.) The weakening of a metal when subjected to repeated vibrations or strains.
Enfeeblement :: Enfeeblement (n.) The act of weakening; enervation; weakness.
Asystole :: Asystole (n.) A weakening or cessation of the contractile power of the heart.
Enerve :: Enerve (v. t.) To weaken; to enervate.
Discouragement :: Discouragement (n.) The act of discouraging, or the state of being discouraged; depression or weakening of confidence; dejection..
Break :: Break (v. t.) To weaken or impair, as health, spirit, or mind..
Melt :: Melt (v.) Hence: To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences; sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken..
Enfeebler :: Enfeebler (n.) One who, or that which, weakens or makes feeble..
Enervation :: Enervation (n.) The act of weakening, or reducing strength..
Weakened :: Weakened (imp. & p. p.) of Weake.
Attenuation :: Attenuation (n.) The process of weakening in intensity; diminution of virulence; as, the attenuation of virus..
Disinvigorate :: Disinvigorate (v. t.) To enervate; to weaken.
Spring :: Spring (v. t.) To crack or split; to bend or strain so as to weaken; as, to spring a mast or a yard..
Sophist :: Sophist (n.) One of a class of men who taught eloquence, philosophy, and politics in ancient Greece; especially, one of those who, by their fallacious but plausible reasoning, puzzled inquirers after truth, weakened the faith of the people, and drew upon themselves general hatred and contempt..
Sicken :: Sicken (v. t.) To impair; to weaken.
Polarization :: Polarization (n.) An effect produced upon the plates of a voltaic battery, or the electrodes in an electrolytic cell, by the deposition upon them of the gases liberated by the action of the current. It is chiefly due to the hydrogen, and results in an increase of the resistance, and the setting up of an opposing electro-motive force, both of which tend materially to weaken the current of the battery, or that passing through the cell..
Damp :: Damp (n.) To put out, as fire; to depress or deject; to deaden; to cloud; to check or restrain, as action or vigor; to make dull; to weaken; to discourage..
Pure :: Pure (superl.) Free from that which harms, vitiates, weakens, or pollutes; genuine; real; perfect; -- applied to things and actions..
Extenuate :: Extenuate (v. t.) To lessen; to palliate; to lessen or weaken the force of; to diminish the conception of, as crime, guilt, faults, ills, accusations, etc.; -- opposed to aggravate..
Infirm :: Infirm (v. t.) To weaken; to enfeeble.
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