Definition of weaken

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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..

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Break :: Break (v. i.) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
Discouragement :: Discouragement (n.) The act of discouraging, or the state of being discouraged; depression or weakening of confidence; dejection..
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..
Weak :: Weak (a.) To make or become weak; to weaken.
Weakening :: Weakening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Weake.
Sprain :: Sprain (v. t.) To weaken, as a joint, ligament, or muscle, by sudden and excessive exertion, as by wrenching; to overstrain, or stretch injuriously, but without luxation; as, to sprain one's ankle..
Emasculate :: Emasculate (v. t.) To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness.
Flagging :: Flagging (a.) Growing languid, weak, or spiritless; weakening; delaying..
Enfeeble :: Enfeeble (v. t.) To make feeble; to deprive of strength; to reduce the strength or force of; to weaken; to debilitate.
Enervation :: Enervation (n.) The act of weakening, or reducing strength..
Enervative :: Enervative (a.) Having power, or a tendency, to enervate; weakening..
Infirm :: Infirm (v. t.) To weaken; to enfeeble.
Imbecile :: Imbecile (v. t.) To weaken; to make imbecile; as, to imbecile men's courage..
Nerve-shaken :: Nerve-shaken (a.) Affected by a tremor, or by a nervous disease; weakened; overcome by some violent influence or sensation; shoked..
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..
Shake :: Shake (v.) Fig.: To move from firmness; to weaken the stability of; to cause to waver; to impair the resolution of.
Broken-backed :: Broken-backed (a.) Hogged; so weakened in the frame as to droop at each end; -- said of a ship.
Faint :: Faint (v. t.) To cause to faint or become dispirited; to depress; to weaken.
Unnerve :: Unnerve (v. t.) To deprive of nerve, force, or strength; to weaken; to enfeeble; as, to unnerve the arm..
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..
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