weaken
/ˈwikən/ verb B2- To make weaker or less strong. · weaken a bond· weaken a joint
- To become weaker or less strong. · Over the years my enthusiasm for the job has weakened.
He/she/it weakens · Past weakened · Past participle weakened · -ing form weakening
Verb forms
- Base form
- weaken
- He/she/it
- weakens
- Past
- weakened
- Past participle
- weakened
- -ing form
- weakening
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Absence had increased her desire of seeing Charlotte again, and weakened her disgust of Mr.
They arose from the unsettling of the minds of the masses, and the consequent weakening of all authority.
Finally, he is anxious to see if you have been fortunate enough to escape the bad moral influence to which you have been exposed, and which is infinitely more to be dreaded than any physical suffering; he wishes to discover if the fine abilities with which nature had endowed you have been weakened by want of culture; and, in short, whether you consider yourself capable of resuming and retaining in the world the high position to which your rank entitles you.”
He resembles the old Conventionalist of ’93, who said to Napoleon, in 1814, ‘You bend because your empire is a young stem, weakened by rapid growth.
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