Verb:

शक्तिहीन करना, निर्बल करना, दुर्बल करना, कमज़ोर करना, ढीला होना, उतरना, क्षीण पड़ना, धीमा पड़ना, निर्बबल होना, दुर्बल होना, कमज़ोर होना,

weakens's Usage Examples:

The disease progressively weakens all muscles, notably respiratory muscles, compromising life expectancy.

Perhaps continually pairing spangles to related Normals bred from Spangles somehow weakens the Spangle gene(s) that produce the visual Spangle.

Any condition that weakens or damages the muscles and nerves used for swallowing may cause dysphagia.

Canon 51 of 1890, however, weakens this provision.

It is only in very large doses that it weakens the intracardiac nervous ganglia, slows and weakens the pulse, and dangerously lowers the blood pressure.

The presence of a small quantity of the hard cementite ought naturally to strengthen the mass, by opposing the tendency of the soft ferrite to flow under any stress applied to it; but more cementite by its brittleness naturally weakens the mass, causing it to crack open under the distortion which stress inevitably causes.

Again, if more than 2% of carbon is present, it passes readily into the state of pure graphitic carbon, which, in itself soft and weak, weakens and embrittles the metal as any foreign body would, by breaking up its continuity.

As a general rule the ripe proglottides are detached in chains and replaced by others which in their turn become detached, the process being repeated for a year or so until the worm weakens and is cast out.

In reply he immediately wrote: " You do not inform me what has rendered necessary such an extraordinary measure which weakens and divides my troops "- and - " I cannot quite grasp the meaning of your letter yet, I should have preferred to see my army concentrated between Ingolstadt and Augsburg, the Bavarians in the first line, with the duke of Danzig in his old position, until we know what the enemy is going to do.

This fact somewhat weakens the various identifications that have been proposed for the cities of Bashan enumerated by name.

Synonyms:

cripple, nullify, stultify, de-energise, etiolate, modify, enervate, shake, mollify, cut, change, devitalise, temper, thin out, enfeeble, de-energize, drain, dilute, devitalize, thin, reduce, negate, debilitate, castrate, emasculate, wash out, season, attenuate, alter, blunt, dampen, neutralize, rarefy, neutralise, depress, break, unbrace,

Antonyms:

lash, strengthen, energise, energize, vitalize,