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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Craze :: Craze (v. t.) To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit.
Weaken :: Weaken (v. t.) To reduce in quality, strength, or spirit; as, to weaken tea; to weaken any solution or decoction..
Attenuate :: Attenuate (v. t.) To lessen the amount, force, or value of; to make less complex; to weaken..
Weak :: Weak (a.) To make or become weak; 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..
Break :: Break (v. t.) To weaken or impair, as health, spirit, or mind..
Labefy :: Labefy (v. t.) To weaken or impair.
Extend :: Extend (v. t.) To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions; as, to extend liquors..
Crazy :: Crazy (a.) Broken, weakened, or dissordered in intellect; shattered; demented; deranged..
Spring :: Spring (v. t.) To crack or split; to bend or strain so as to weaken; as, to spring a mast or a yard..
Strained :: Strained (a.) Subjected to great or excessive tension; wrenched; weakened; as, strained relations between old friends..
Weakening :: Weakening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Weake.
Pall :: Pall (v. t.) To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken.
Weakened :: Weakened (imp. & p. p.) of Weake.
Sicken :: Sicken (v. t.) To impair; to weaken.
Dilute :: Dilute (v. t.) To diminish the strength, flavor, color, etc., of, by mixing; to reduce, especially by the addition of water; to temper; to attenuate; to weaken..
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..
Weaken :: Weaken (v. i.) To become weak or weaker; to lose strength, spirit, or determination; to become less positive or resolute; as, the patient weakened; the witness weakened on cross-examination..
Melt :: Melt (v. i.) Hence: To be softened; to become tender, mild, or gentle; also, to be weakened or subdued, as by fear..
Enervative :: Enervative (a.) Having power, or a tendency, to enervate; weakening..
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