Definitions for weaken

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weaken weak·en

Spelling: [wee-kuh n]

IPA: /ˈwi kən/

Weaken is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 61 anagrams from letters in weaken (aeeknw).

Definitions for weaken

verb (used with object)

1. to make weak or weaker.
2. Phonetics. to change (a speech sound) to an articulation requiring less effort, as from geminate to nongeminate or from stop to fricative.

verb (used without object)

1. to become weak or weaker.

Origin of weaken

First recorded in 1520-30; weak + -en¹

Examples for weaken

Her death did not weaken my resolutions nor slacken my ardour.

It makes the corn grow or the rain fall or the heart of the enemy to weaken.

Democrats split over moves to weaken Wall Street reforms, and Republicans pouted over lost leverage.

But the attacks could also weaken the most potent opponents to the dictator Bashar al-Assad.

It has however served to weaken her prepossessions, and relax the chains of her attachment.

In conclusion he told them that the foundation of their fortune was laid, if they did not weaken.

Assad has been accused of knowingly leaving room for ISIS to grow, the better to weaken the less radical rebels.

This jives with his previous research that fasting can weaken cancer in mice.

But his voice never seems to crack or weaken, and he's always in motion—jiggling, aerobic walking, jumping, dancing.

Have hot water in another pot, to weaken the cups of those that like it so.