Word Meanings - WEAKEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. 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. Their hands
Additional info about word: WEAKEN
1. 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. Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done. Neh. vi. 9. 2. To reduce in quality, strength, or spirit; as, to weaken tea; to weaken any solution or decoction.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of WEAKEN)
- Cripple
- Weaken
- impair
- curtail
- cramp
- disable
- Enervate
- enfeeble
- unnerve
- deteriorate
- debilitate
- relax
- unstring
- unhinge
- Exhaust
- Empty
- spend
- consume
- waste
- void
- drain
- weaken
- weary
- Reduce
- Lessen
- diminish
- attenuate
- impoverish
- narrow
- contract
- subdue
- subjugate
- bring
- refer
- subject
- classify
- convert
- Shake
- Agitate
- oscillate
- totter
- convulse
- loosen
- tremble
- jar
- quiver
- shiver
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of WEAKEN)
- Expand
- amplify
- dilate
- elongate
- reverse
- cancel
- abandon
- Replenish
- fill
- supply
- pour
- moisten
- drown
- inundate
- drench
- swill
Related words: (words related to WEAKEN)
- BRANDLING; BRANDLIN
See WORM - BROKERY
The business of a broker. And with extorting, cozening, forfeiting, And tricks belonging unto brokery. Marlowe. - BREVIARY
summary, abridgment, neut. noun fr. breviarius abridged, fr. brevis 1. An abridgment; a compend; an epitome; a brief account or summary. A book entitled the abridgment or breviary of those roots that are to be cut up or gathered. Holland. 2. A - BRITTLELY
In a brittle manner. Sherwood. - BRAND IRON
1. A branding iron. 2. A trivet to set a pot on. Huloet. 3. The horizontal bar of an andiron. - BRAZIL NUT
An oily, three-sided nut, the seed of the Bertholletia excelsa; the cream nut. Note: From eighteen to twenty-four of the seed or "nuts" grow in a hard and nearly globular shell. - BRAST
To burst. And both his yën braste out of his face. Chaucer. Dreadfull furies which their chains have brast. Spenser. - BREAKMAN
See BRAKEMAN - REVERSED
Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. Reversed positive or negative , a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney. (more info) 1. Turned side for side, - BROID
To braid. Chaucer. - BROIDERER
One who embroiders. - BRUISEWORT
A plant supposed to heal bruises, as the true daisy, the soapwort, and the comfrey. - ATTENUATE; ATTENUATED
1. Made thin or slender. 2. Made thin or less viscid; rarefied. Bacon. - NARROW
A narrow passage; esp., a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water; -- usually in the plural; as, The Narrows of New York harbor. Near the island lay on one side the jaws of a dangerous narrow. Gladstone. - BRAWNER
A boor killed for the table. - BRACHIOGANOID
One of the Brachioganoidei. - WASTEL
A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott. - BRANCHIOSTOMA
The lancelet. See Amphioxus. - BRITANNIC
Of or pertaining to Great Britain; British; as, her Britannic Majesty. - BROKEN WIND
The heaves. - CRAMP
A device, usually of iron bent at the ends, used to hold together blocks of stone, timbers, etc.; a cramp iron. (more info) Dan. krampe, G. krampf , Icel. krappr strait, 1. That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shakle; a hindrance. - BREATHE
Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3. - COUNTERBRACE
To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another. - ALKALI WASTE
Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste. - UNDERBRED
Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith. - OPPROBRIOUS
1. Expressive of opprobrium; attaching disgrace; reproachful; scurrilous; as, opprobrious language. They . . . vindicate themselves in terms no less opprobrious than those by which they are attacked. Addison. 2. Infamous; despised; rendered - TECTIBRANCHIA
See TECTIBRANCHIATA - CREBRICOSTATE
Marked with closely set ribs or ridges. - MAKE AND BREAK
Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker. - CAMBRIC
1. A fine, thin, and white fabric made of flax or linen. He hath ribbons of all the colors i' the rainbow; . . . inkles, caddises, cambrics, lawns. Shak. 2. A fabric made, in imitation of linen cambric, of fine, hardspun cotton, often with figures - BRASIER; BRAZIER
An artificer who works in brass. Franklin. - OVERBROW
To hang over like a brow; to impend over. Longfellow. Did with a huge projection overbrow Large space beneath. Wordsworth. - CHICKEN-BREASTED
Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column. - TOOTHBRUSH
A brush for cleaning the teeth. - SUBBRONCHIAL
Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the bronchi; as, the subbronchial air sacs of birds.