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68 words match “WEAKEN”

DISINVIGORATE v.
To enervate; to weaken. [R.] Sydney Smith.
EFFEMINATE v.
To make womanish; to make soft and delicate; to weaken. It will not corrupt or effeminate children's minds. Locke.
EMASCULATE v.
To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness. Luxury had not emasculated their minds. V. Knox.
ENERVATE a.
Weakened; weak; without strength of force. Pope.
ENERVATION n. 2 definitions
The act of weakening, or reducing strength.
ENERVATIVE a.
Having power, or a tendency, to enervate; weakening. [R.]
ENERVE v.
To weaken; to enervate. [Obs.] Milton.
ENFEEBLE v.
To make feeble; to deprive of strength; to reduce the strength or force of; to weaken; to debilitate. Enfeebled by scanty subsistence and excessive toil. Prescott.
ENFEEBLEMENT n.
The act of weakening; enervation; weakness.
ENFEEBLER n.
One who, or that which, weakens or makes feeble.
ENTAILMENT n.
A thing entailed. Brutality as an hereditary entailment becomes an ever weakening force. R. L. Dugdale.
EXTEND v.
To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions; as, to extend liquors. G. P. Burnham.
EXTENUATE v.
To lessen; to palliate; to lessen or weaken the force of; to diminish the conception of, as crime, guilt, faults, ills, accusations, etc.; -- opposed to aggravate. But fortune there extenuates the crime. Dryden. Let us extenuate, conceal, adorn the unpleasing reality. I. Taylor.
FAINT v.
To cause to faint or become dispirited; to depress; to weaken. [Obs.] It faints me to think what follows. Shak.
FATIGUE n.
The weakening of a metal when subjected to repeated vibrations or strains. Fatigue call (Mil.), a summons, by bugle or drum, to perform fatigue duties. -- Fatigue dress, the working dress of soldiers. -- Fatigue duty (Mil.), labor exacted from soldiers aside from the use of arms. Farrow. -- Fatigue party, a party of…
FLAGGING a.
Growing languid, weak, or spiritless; weakening; delaying. -- Flag"ging*ly, adv.
GROGGY a.
Weakened in a fight so as to stagger; -- said of pugilists. [Cant or Slang]
HUNGER-BIT; HUNGER-BITTEN a.
Pinched or weakened by hunger. [Obs.] Milton.
IMBECILE v.
To weaken; to make imbecile; as, to imbecile men's courage. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.
IMBECILITATE v.
To weaken, as to the body or the mind; to enfeeble. [R.] A. Wilson.
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