Weaken is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for WEAKEN in dictionary:

VERB:
• to make weak
• make or become weaker in power, resolve, or physical strength
• To make weak; to lessen the strength of; to deprive of strength; to debilitate; to enfeeble; to enervate; as, to weaken the body or the mind; to weaken the hands of a magistrate; to weaken the force of an objection or an argument.
• To reduce in quality, strength, or spirit; as, to weaken tea; to weaken any solution or decoction.
• 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.
• destroy property or hinder normal operations
• reduce the level or intensity or size or scope of
• lessen in force or effect
• make or become weak

Words related to WEAKEN

enfeeble13 unsinew10 weakened16 weakener15 weakeners16 weakening17 weakens14

Words that contain WEAKEN

weakens14 weakened16 weakener15 weakeners16 weakening17 unweakened18 weakenings18

How to use WEAKEN in a sentence

• Thus, he condemned gratitude as a sentiment calculated to weaken the sense of justice, and to substitute feeling for reason.
• We, to the utmost of our power, weaken and dissolve the universal tie that binds and unites mankind.
• It is a marvel that it did not in the end weaken the power and prestige of both Palmerston and Napoleon III.
• Changes in the constitution weaken our respect for it.
• If possible I wish to avoid any course which might weaken the influence for good of such a man as Henry.
• If this is true, you can readily understand that partly closing it will weaken it to a certain extent.
• Those which I formerly received have so confirmed this belief, that even my present misfortunes cannot weaken it.
• I would rather see you defiant than to have you weaken.
• We, to the utmost of our power, weaken and dissolve the universal tie, that binds and unites mankind.
• But all this tyranny did not weaken, though it vexed the nation, because the great men were kept in proper subjection, and justice was steadily administered.
• Christianity, in this sense, has contributed much to weaken the sense of duty of the citizen, and to deliver the world into the absolute power of existing circumstances.
• We try to save the lives of the people we formerly sought to weaken by devastation, disease and starvation.
• I would not wish to weaken the hopes he so justly rests on your, known goodness and benevolence.
• But a careful consideration of the objections offered fails entirely to weaken the argument.
• Always she trusted to her star, and now it had brought her to Algiers, she would not weaken in that trust.
• He feared that by lending his support he would incur the wrath of the English Government, while he could not weaken his position in Jamaica by sending soldiers from his garrison.
• Conquests carried into the heart of Africa forced the Egyptians to recognize their error, but did not weaken their faith in the supernatural origin of the river.
• The attempt to make political capital out of the matter in the Dominion parliament had no other result than to weaken the influence in Ontario of Mr.
• Whereof doth it proceed that want of sleep doth weaken the brain and body? A.
• These transitional cases, puzzling as they may be on occasion, do not, however, materially weaken the case for the psychological validity of the word.
• But Pope, still under the delusion that Longstreet was not yet up, preferred rather to weaken his left than grant the request of a subordinate.
• Longfellow hereby aims to be more close to the form of Dante? Whatever the cause of its use, the effect is still farther to weaken his translation.
• During the past three thousand years much has been done to weaken this conservatism by putting an end to the state of things which produced it.
• Physical desire still remains the paramount thing, but these other sympathies tend to strengthen it, or their absence may weaken and ultimately destroy it.
• He had begun to weaken under the strain and felt the approach of something akin to collapse.
• And if we weaken ourselves, we shall also weaken him by this movement.
• Least of all were the Republican members disposed to weaken the hold of the Federal government upon Territories where the question of slavery might again become acute.

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