Weaken
['wiːk(ə)n] or ['wikən]
解释:
(verb.) become weaker; 'The prisoner's resistance weakened after seven days'.
(verb.) lessen the strength of; 'The fever weakened his body'.
阿方斯校对--From WordNet
解释:
(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.
(v. t.) To reduce in quality, strength, or spirit; as, to weaken tea; to weaken any solution or decoction.
(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.
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同义词及近义词：
v. a. [1]. Enfeeble, enervate, debilitate, break, unman, effeminate, emolliate, unnerve, make weak.[2]. Invalidate, make of less effect.[3]. Reduce, depress, debase, lower.
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同义词及反义词：
SYN:Debilitate, enfeeble, enervate, dilute, impair, paralyze, attenuate, sap
ANT:Strengthen, invigorate, empower, corroborate, confirm
整理:莎丽
例句:
- The result of moisture in the interior of a magnet is to weaken the effectiveness of the installation, leading eventually to short circuits and burn-outs. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- It is easy to see, that this property must strengthen the child's relation to the father, and weaken that to the mother. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- All these differences prevent or weaken the comparison, and consequently the passion. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- You are going out, Micawber, to this distant clime, to strengthen, not to weaken, the connexion between yourself and Albion. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- And he set himself to weaken the republicans whose fundamental convictions he was planning to outrage. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- And luxury and softness are blamed, because they relax and weaken this same creature, and make a coward of him? 柏拉图. 理想国.
- At the time the circumstances made a deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly served to weaken the effect. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- That the power, and consequently the security of the monarchy, may not be weakened by division, it must descend entire to one of the children. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- To-day traditional Christianity has weakened in the face of man's interest in the conquest of this world. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- The weakened virus increased in strength when cult ivated in a series of rabbits. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- The use of the weakened inoculation had developed it s resistance to infection. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- Meade was instructed to watch the enemy closely and, if Lee weakened his lines, to make an attack. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- One curious thing the National Assembly did which greatly weakened its grip on affairs. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- But two disasters happened to the Etruscans which so weakened them that the Romans were able at last to master them altogether. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- We have already shown how the hold of the Catholic church upon the consciences of men was weakening at this time. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- One of the best-known cells in which weakening of the current is prevented by chemical means is the so-called gravity cell. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- In fact, I could feel myself weakening from the mental and physical strain I had been undergoing. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- Their obsession now is the weakening of the commissariat for war. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- The very fact of the enemy coming out to attack, if he does so, might be regarded as almost conclusive evidence of such a weakening of his lines. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- None of her neighbours had attacked her, because she appeared to be weakening herself by her internal dissensions. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- It would be equal to the amputation of a limb in its weakening effects upon the enemy. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- An exclusive corporation necessarily weakens the force of this discipline. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- That makes the swelling and that's what weakens you and makes you start to pass. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- This difficulty, when joined with a small distance, interrupts and weakens the fancy: But has a contrary effect in a great removal. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- This may be carried on to a great length; though at the same time we may observe, that each remove considerably weakens the relation. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- This new relation, therefore, weakens the tie betwixt the first and second objects. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
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