0 past simple and past participle of weaken
1 to (cause to) become less strong, powerful, determined, or effective:
In his journal, Captain Scott recorded that he and his companions were weakened by lack of food.
Is TV responsible for weakening people's moral fibre?
The latest setbacks have not weakened the government's resolve.
The fire weakened the central tower, which eventually collapsed.
This evidence weakens the case for the prosecution.
This is because vowels in both primarily and secondarily stressed syllables are rendered strong and not weakened.
The body had its "defensive forces" (wei qi) to guard its frontiers; those forces were bound to fail, though, when weakened by corruption from within.
The strong defiance incentives probably weakened somewhat from the mid 1980s, when the state grants became more generous.
