Similar words: weaken, weakening, awakened, weaker, darkened, blackened, weak, tweak. Meaning: ['wɪːkən] adj. 1. impaired by diminution 2. made weak or weaker 3. reduced in strength 4. mixed with water 5. damaged inanimate objects or their value.
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91. First, the male - female bonding is weakened owing to the low frequency of male interactions with most of his female companions.
92. He looked at her without animosity and for a moment her knees weakened.
93. The result has been that major reforms are completely avoided and every minor reform is weakened or sabotaged.
94. The general election was called only after months of on-again, off-again dithering which damaged our economy and weakened our democracy.
95. The disagreement weakened efforts to demand positive government policy and to insist that perpetrators of racially motivated violence against blacks be punished.
96. That is one reason so many Republicans want him to remain in place even in a weakened condition.
97. The Court at St Germain, however, was riven with personal rivalries and intrigues, which weakened Jacobite organisation considerably.
98. A general lack of understanding of factor analysis, however, weakened the impact of the study and its effect was minimal.
99. Doctors reasoned that limbs left untreated would draw into deformity by strong muscles pulling against weakened ones.
100. Had his anti-female attitude been weakened during an unguarded moment?
101. On Terrible Tuesday, the weakened market rallied and the Dow rose 102 points, then 187 on Wednesday.
102. But a spiraling deficit and weakened franc forced him to adopt austerity policies in 1983.
103. In this way their credibility would be undermined and their power weakened.
104. The needle immediately showed a reading,[http://sentencedict.com/weakened.html] which then strengthened and weakened as he moved about the warehouse.
105. The older trees grow spindly and, their immune systems weakened, fall prey to infestation of beetles and disease.
106. Traditionally, that has meant injecting people with a weakened or killed version of the virus itself, triggering antibodies.
107. But he was in a weakened condition with a smart man like Teal.
108. By launching the new forum Mr Heseltine is getting his own back on the now weakened Mr Lamont.
109. This omission certainly weakened his position during the struggle that lay ahead.
110. Rumblings from recent abortive coup plots coupled with an erosion of army discipline have reportedly weakened Guei's grip on the military.
111. He laid siege to the fortress and gradually weakened it to the point of collapse.
112. Instead all she had was a heart condition, which progressively weakened her until she died at fifty-five.
113. Could it be that this underlying sense of obligation has weakened over time?
114. After about 12 months the host mistletoe is usually either dead or severely weakened.
115. Various new findings have weakened the position of the sceptics on climate change.
116. Last year's event was weakened by the fact that it coincided with the now defunct Tokyo Art Expo.
117. Was he really so psychologically weakened that public humiliation would become a sort of perverse fame?
118. I put it to Assemblyman Keene that this weakened the bill, and restricted the freedom of action of patients and doctors.
119. Then, as the yen weakened again to 104. 2 in mid-September, the Nikkei bounced back to 18474. 38.
120. They know that the removal of the dictator who so brutalised their community has weakened their claim for total independence.
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