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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Weaken \Weak"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Weakened; p. pr. & vb.
     n. Weakening.]
     [1913 Webster]
     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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it
              be not done.                          --Neh. vi. 9.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. To reduce in quality, strength, or spirit; as, to weaken
        tea; to weaken any solution or decoction.
        [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Weaken \Weak"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Weakened; p. pr. & vb.
     n. Weakening.]
     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.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  weakened
       adj 1: impaired by diminution [syn: diminished, lessened, vitiated]
       2: made weak or weaker
       3: reduced in strength; "the faded tones of an old recording"
          [syn: attenuate, attenuated, faded]
       4: mixed with water; "sold cut whiskey"; "a cup of thinned
          soup" [syn: cut, thinned]
       5: used of inanimate objects or their value [syn: hurt]

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  weakened
     a.
     Reduced; made less strong.
     vb.
     (infl of en weaken  ed-form)

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  weakened
     a.
     Reduced; made less strong.
     vb.
     (infl of en weaken  ed-form)

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  weakened
     a.
     Reduced; made less strong.
     vb.
     (infl of en weaken  ed-form)

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  weakened
     a.
     Reduced; made less strong.
     vb.
     (infl of en weaken  ed-form)

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  weakened
     Englanti a.
     heikentynyt

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  weakened
     Engelska a.
     (avledning en weaken ordform=perfpart)
     Engelska vb.
     (böjning en verb weaken)

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Weakened /wˈiːkənd/
  ضعيف

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  weakened /wˈiːkənd/ 
  oslabený

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  weakened /wˈiːkənd/
  geschwächt, abgeschwächt
        "I/he/she weakened"  - ich/er/sie schwächte
   see: weaken sb./sth., weakening, he/she weakens, you weakened, weaken sb.'s bargaining hand, weaken an argument, in order to not weaken the signal
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  weakened /wˈiːkənd/
  schwächer geworden, nachgelassen, weich geworden
   see: weaken, weakening
  

From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 :   [ freedict:eng-hrv ]

  weakened /wˈiːkənd/
  oslabljeno

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/ˈwikənd/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  145 Moby Thesaurus words for "weakened":
     abated, ablated, aggravated, attenuated, ausgespielt, bated,
     belittled, broken, burned, burned-out, burst, busted, cachectic,
     checked, chipped, consumed, contracted, cracked, crazed, curtailed,
     cut, damaged, debilitated, decreased, deflated, deteriorated,
     devitalized, diminished, disabled, dissipated, drained, drooping,
     droopy, dropped, effete, embittered, enervated, enfeebled, eroded,
     eviscerated, exacerbated, exhausted, fagged, failing, faint,
     fainting, fallen, fatigued, feeble, feeling faint, flagging,
     footsore, frail, frazzled, good and tired, harmed, healthless,
     hurt, impaired, imperfect, in bits, in pieces, in poor health,
     in shards, incapacitated, infirm, injured, invalid, irritated,
     jaded, lacerated, languid, languishing, less, lesser, lower,
     lowered, mangled, miniaturized, moribund, mutilated, pale, peaked,
     peaky, played out, ready to drop, reduced, reduced in health, rent,
     retrenched, run ragged, run-down, ruptured, sagging, sapped,
     scalded, scaled-down, scorched, seedy, shattered, shorn, shorter,
     shrunk, shrunken, sickly, slashed, slit, smaller, smashed, spent,
     split, sprung, the worse for, tired, tired-winged, toilworn, torn,
     unhealthy, unrefreshed, unrestored, unsound, used up,
     valetudinarian, valetudinary, wasted, watered-down, way-weary,
     wayworn, weak, weakly, wearied, weariful, weary, weary-footed,
     weary-laden, weary-winged, weary-worn, wilting,
     with low resistance, worn, worn-down, worn-out, worse, worse off,
     worsened
  
  

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