0 past simple and past participle of weaken
1 to (cause to) become less strong, powerful, determined, or effective:
The tribes, weakened by their deteriorating economic circumstances, needed the state's assistance and became more amenable to its patronage.
Huge capital costs, the limited availability of supplies, contested markets and price controls all weakened the market's ability to function effectively.
This led to the generation of ductile transpressional shear zones while the crust was thermally weakened because of the high temperatures.
Such concentrated opponents should tend to be weakened by crisis.
The incentive to put forward underfinanced proposals is weakened compared to a system where entitlement appropriations are open-ended.
Both had recently seen their unions seriously weakened by severe repression.
Once independence was achieved, the unions were left weak, and were further weakened when a number of key officials were lured into government.
One phonological change which severely weakened the distinction between these classes was the neutralization of unstressed vowels.
