Definition: 1. Lessen the strength of. 2. Become weaker. 3. Destroy property or hinder normal operations. 4. Reduce the level or intensity or size or scope of. 5. Lessen in force or effect.
Use 'weaken' in a sentence:
1. The Bundesbank's seemingly impregnable position has begun to weaken.
2. If you tied me with seven ropes, it would make my strength weaken.
3. Disease often follows on starvation because the body is weakened.
4. Punishment and penalty fail to weaken the strong belief.
5. Something as simple as a credit card can weaken self-control.
6. He weakened after his illness.
7. He did his best to weaken them.
8. The Prime Minister's opponents believe that her authority has been fatally weakened.
9. It will clearly lower rates. It will weaken the dollar.
10. The army will brook no weakening of its power.
11. Their bargaining position with America was weakened by their foot-dragging over the Gulf.
12. She began to weaken after running for8 miles.
13. He sees that warm water flows back eastwards when winds that normally blow westwards weaken, or sometimes the other way round.
14. The center says the pattern should begin to weaken in a week or two.
15. And they will weaken the state's grip over the lives of Cubans.
16. The children were weakened by lack of essential nutrients for a long time.
17. But during this global recession, it could very well weaken.
18. Israel has intervened even more forcefully to weaken the shekel.
19. They don't kill the plant but weaken it by degrees.
20. You must not agree to do it. Don't weaken.
21. He denied the US move would weaken the agreement.
22. Don't you ever weaken, Huck, and I won't.
23. It also tends to weaken the currency and increase inflation.
24. Many Chinese are loth to give blood, believing it might weaken them.
25. These policies have weakened the resolve of potential house buyers.
26. He did it to weaken the manager's position.
27. He was much weakened constitutionally by the disease.
28. The new evidence has weakened the case against the accused.
29. Family structures are weakening and breaking up.
30. Both of them were weakened by the war.; Neither side gained in the war.
31. She felt her legs weaken.
32. Brownouts this summer might weaken people's anti-nuclear zeal.
33. It can also corrode and weaken the shell over time.
34. He felt sorry for him and began first to waver and then to weaken.
35. It could weaken your immune system.
36. The budget crisis also spotlighted a weakening American economy.
37. There was one caveat: he was not to enter into a merger or otherwise weaken the Roche family's control of the firm.
38. The recession has weakened so many firms that many can no longer survive.
39. Does this friendship strengthen me or weaken me?
40. Environmentalists offer theirs, which too often amount to naive wish lists that could weaken American's growth.
41. Forgetting clearly aids orientation in time, since old memories weaken and the new tend to stand out, providing clues for inferring duration.
42. The verdict hasn't weakened his resolve to fight the charges against him.
43. The explosion had weakened the building's foundations.
44. In any case, cash gifts can weaken the resolve of even the noblest person.
45. I looked at the list and felt my resolve weakening.
46. Never dry underwear over direct heat; it will weaken the fabric.
47. His authority is steadily weakening.
48. He accused them of conniving with foreign companies to weaken employment rights.
49. Nothing could weaken his resolve to continue.
50. Malnutrition obviously weakens the patient.
51. Jennie weakened, and finally relented.
52. It was clear that one massive Allied offensive would overwhelm the weakened enemy.
53. The technique consists of injecting healthy cells into the weakened muscles.
54. Germany's attack has been weakened by the loss of some key players through injury.
