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Definition of Weaken
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Weaken
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. To reduce in quality, strength, or spirit; as, to weaken tea; to weaken any solution or decoction. To become weak or weaker; to lose strength, spirit, or determination; to become less positive or resolute; as, the patient weakened; the witness weakened on cross-examination. Related Definitions:
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Weaken Quotations
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. Mohandas Gandhi Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life. Voltaire But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside, and they weaken us from within with ideas like secularism, liberalism and democracy. This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam. Abu Bakar Bashir Increased government spending can provide a temporary stimulus to demand and output but in the longer run higher levels of government spending crowd out private investment or require higher taxes that weaken growth by reducing incentives to save, invest, innovate, and work. Martin Feldstein Useless laws weaken the necessary laws. Charles de Montesquieu |
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Weaken Translations
weaken in Dutch is aanlengen weaken in French is affaiblissez, affaiblissons, affaiblissent weaken in Italian is indebolire, debilitare weaken in Latin is macero, adflicto affligo, deficio, attero, adficio weaken in Spanish is debilitar |
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