Usually means: Reduce the strength or effectiveness.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. weaken: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. weaken: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. weaken: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. weaken: Collins English Dictionary
  5. weaken: Vocabulary.com
  6. Weaken, weaken: Wordnik
  7. weaken: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. weaken: Wiktionary
  9. weaken: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. weaken: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. weaken: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. weaken: Dictionary.com
  13. weaken: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Weaken: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. weaken: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. weaken: Rhymezone
  17. Weaken: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. weaken: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. weaken: Free Dictionary
  20. weaken: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. weaken: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. weaken: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. weaken: Encyclopedia

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▸ verb:  (transitive) To make weaker or less strong.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To become weaker or less strong.

Similar:
de-escalate, soften, step down, subvert, break, dampen, undermine, sabotage, damp, countermine, more...

Opposite:
strengthen, fortify, reinforce

Phrases:
It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken, to weaken, gradually weaken, damage or weaken, opposite of weaken, more...

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    light blue,     soft pink,     faded yellow,     washed-out green,     muted lavender, more...



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Similar:
de-escalate, soften, step down, subvert, break, dampen, undermine, sabotage, damp, countermine, more...

Opposite:
strengthen, fortify, reinforce

Phrases:
It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken, to weaken, gradually weaken, damage or weaken, opposite of weaken, to weaken or reduce in force, weaken a feeling, weaken one thing to strengthen another, more...

Colors:
    light blue,     soft pink,     faded yellow,     washed-out green,     muted lavender, more...



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