weaken
/ˈwikən/ verbo B2En español: debilitar, languir, debilitarse, languecer
- 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 · Pasado weakened · Participio pasado weakened · Forma en -ing weakening
Formas del verbo
- Forma base
- weaken
- He/she/it
- weakens
- Pasado
- weakened
- Participio pasado
- weakened
- Forma en -ing
- weakening
Phrasal verbs y expresiones
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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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