Crossword-Solution: WEAKEN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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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. |
We have 58 clues for the answer “WEAKEN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| make or become weak | 1 answer |
| Reduce the strength of | 1 answer |
| Lose clout | 1 answer |
| Loose oomph | 1 answer |
| Get less powerful | 1 answer |
| Defang | 2 answers |
| Make less powerful | 2 answers |
| MAKE effeminate | 3 answers |
| FORTIFY (ant.) | 5 answers |
| grow faint | 7 answers |
| STRENGTH, deprive of | 7 answers |
| sissify | 11 answers |
| BECOME female | 11 answers |
| Water (down) | 11 answers |
| ADD WATER TO | 12 answers |
| Spay | 12 answers |
| DISENABLE | 13 answers |
| sterilise | 14 answers |
| unman | 15 answers |
| enfeeble | 16 answers |
| Debilitate | 16 answers |
| Dilute | 18 answers |
| feminise | 18 answers |
| feminize | 18 answers |
| castrate | 20 answers |
| make female | 21 answers |
| extenuate | 22 answers |
| attenuate | 23 answers |
| make sorry | 24 answers |
| Geld | 24 answers |
| Make ill. | 24 answers |
| Neuter | 25 answers |
| Emasculate | 26 answers |
| Starve | 31 answers |
| Deject | 31 answers |
| Droop | 33 answers |
| Impoverish | 33 answers |
| Enervate | 33 answers |
| MAKE lifeless | 33 answers |
| Unnerve | 34 answers |
| Deplete | 35 answers |
| Dampen | 39 answers |
| Under-mine | 39 answers |
| Unable | 47 answers |
| Grieve | 49 answers |
| BRING down | 50 answers |
| Debase | 51 answers |
| Sap | 51 answers |
| Impair | 52 answers |
| Neutralise | 56 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EARET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with WEAKEN (5)
And he said if a man owned a beehive and that man died, the bees must be told about it before sun-up next morning, or else the bees would all weaken down and quit work and die.
This old reprobate was one of the sufferers when Cotton Mather, and his brother ministers, and the learned judges, and other wise men, and Sir William Phipps, the sagacious governor, made such laudable efforts to weaken the great enemy of souls, by sending a multitude of his adherents up the rocky pathway of Gallows Hill.
The royal policy had long been to weaken, by every means, legal or illegal, the strength of a part of the population which was justly considered as nourishing the most inveterate antipathy to their victor.
And luxury and softness are blamed, because they relax and weaken this same creature, and make a coward of him? Very true.
Dashwood; “_she_ must be answerable.” Marianne would not let her proceed;—and Elinor, satisfied that each felt their own error, wished to avoid any survey of the past that might weaken her sister’s spirits; she, therefore, pursuing the first subject, immediately continued, “_One_ observation may, I think, be fairly drawn from the whole of the story—that all Willoughby’s difficulties have arisen from the first offence against virtue, in his behaviour to Eliza Williams.
Quotes with WEAKEN (3)
Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it.
A woman should soften but not weaken a man.
I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English―it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them―then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, onc…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 20 times in crossword archives (1975–2023).