Weakens Synonyms and Antonyms

To moderate or change a position or course of action as a result of pressure
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. yields
  2. softens
  3. slackens
  4. relents
Lessen the strength of
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. wilts
  2. waters
  3. faints
  4. flags
  5. trembles
  6. totters
  7. abates
  8. thins
  9. declines
  10. fades
  11. languishes
  12. limps
  13. dilutes
  14. halts
  15. crumbles
  16. wanes
  17. fails
  18. droops
  19. relaxes
  20. cuts
  21. softens
  22. relapses
  23. decreases
  24. loses
  25. attenuates
  26. lessens
Antonyms:
  1. strengthens
  2. straightens
  3. revives
To lessen or deplete the nerve, energy, or strength of
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. unnerves
  2. undoes
  3. undermines
  4. saps
  5. enfeebles
  6. enervates
  7. debilitates
  8. attenuates

Weakens Sentence Examples

  • This fact somewhat weakens the various identifications that have been proposed for the cities of Bashan enumerated by name.

  • As a general rule the ripe proglottides are detached in chains and replaced by others which in their turn become detached, the process being repeated for a year or so until the worm weakens and is cast out.

  • Again, if more than 2% of carbon is present, it passes readily into the state of pure graphitic carbon, which, in itself soft and weak, weakens and embrittles the metal as any foreign body would, by breaking up its continuity.

  • The presence of a small quantity of the hard cementite ought naturally to strengthen the mass, by opposing the tendency of the soft ferrite to flow under any stress applied to it; but more cementite by its brittleness naturally weakens the mass, causing it to crack open under the distortion which stress inevitably causes.

  • It is only in very large doses that it weakens the intracardiac nervous ganglia, slows and weakens the pulse, and dangerously lowers the blood pressure.

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