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- Weaken - v. t. - 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.
- Weaken - v. t. - To reduce in quality, strength, or spirit; as, to weaken tea; to weaken any solution or decoction.
- Weaken - v. i. - 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.
- Weakened - imp. & p. p. - of Weaken
- Weakener - n. - One who, or that which, weakens.
- Weakening - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Weaken
- Labefy - v. t. - To weaken or impair.
- Shake - v. - Fig.: To move from firmness; to weaken the stability of; to cause to waver; to impair the resolution of.
- Break - v. t. - To weaken or impair, as health, spirit, or mind.
- Weaken - v. t. - To reduce in quality, strength, or spirit; as, to weaken tea; to weaken any solution or decoction.
- Demoralize - v. t. - To corrupt or undermine in morals; to destroy or lessen the effect of moral principles on; to render corrupt or untrustworthy in morals, in discipline, in courage, spirit, etc.; to weaken in spirit or efficiency.
- Invalidate - v. t. - To render invalid; to weaken or lessen the force of; to destroy the authority of; to render of no force or effect; to overthrow; as, to invalidate an agreement or argument.
- Extenuate - v. t. - 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.
- Infatuate - v. t. - To make foolish; to affect with folly; to weaken the intellectual powers of, or to deprive of sound judgment.
- Polarization - n. - An effect produced upon the plates of a voltaic battery, or the electrodes in an electrolytic cell, by the deposition upon them of the gases liberated by the action of the current. It is chiefly due to the hydrogen, and results in an increase of the resistance, and the setting up of an opposing electro-motive force, both of which tend materially to weaken the current of the battery, or that passing through the cell.
- Weaken - v. t. - 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.
- Mince - v. t. - To suppress or weaken the force of; to extenuate; to palliate; to tell by degrees, instead of directly and frankly; to clip, as words or expressions; to utter half and keep back half of.
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- H6031 עָנָה - 6031 עָנָה - עָנָה - - ʻânâh - aw-naw' - a primitive root (possibly rather identical with עָנָה through the idea of looking down or browbeating); to depress literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive (in various applications, as follows); abase self, afflict(-ion, self), answer (by mistake for עָנָה), chasten self, deal hardly with, defile, exercise, force, gentleness, humble (self), hurt, ravish, sing (by mistake for עָנָה), speak (by mistake for עָנָה), submit self, weaken, [idiom] in any wise. - Verb - heb
- H2522 חָלַשׁ - 2522 חָלַשׁ - חָלַשׁ - - châlash - khaw-lash' - a primitive root; to prostrate; by implication, to overthrow, decay; discomfit, waste away, weaken. - Verb - heb
- H2827 חֲשַׁל - 2827 חֲשַׁל - חֲשַׁל - - chăshal - khash-al' - (Aramaic) a root corresponding to חָשַׁל; to weaken, i.e. crush; subdue. - Verb - arc
- H3545 כֵּהָה - 3545 כֵּהָה - כֵּהָה - - kêhâh - kay-haw' - feminine of כֵּהֶה; properly, a weakening; figuratively, alleviation, i.e. cure; healing. - Noun Feminine - heb
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- Ezra 15 4:4 Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building,
עַם אֶרֶץ רָפָה יָד עַם יְהוּדָה בָּהַל בָּנָה - Isaiah 23 14:12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
נָפַל שָׁמַיִם הֵילֵל בֵּן שַׁחַר יָלַל גָּדַע אֶרֶץ חָלַשׁ גּוֹי - Psalms 19 102:23 He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.
עָנָה כֹּחַ דֶּרֶךְ קָצַר יוֹם - Jeremiah 24 38:4 Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.
שַׂר אָמַר מֶלֶךְ אִישׁ מוּת כֵּן רָפָה יָד אֱנוֹשׁ מִלְחָמָה שָׁאַר עִיר יָד עַם דָבַר דָּבָר אִישׁ דָּרַשׁ שָׁלוֹם עַם רַע - Job 18 12:21 He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength of the mighty.
שָׁפַךְ בּוּז נָדִיב רָפָה מָזִיחַ אָפִיק