How to Use weaken in a Sentence

weaken

verb
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  • The dollar has continued to weaken against the euro.
  • The beams had been weakened by water damage.
  • The disease weakens the immune system.
  • The disease causes the immune system to weaken.
  • Some are concerned that the increase in taxes will weaken the economy.
  • The recent setbacks have not weakened our resolve.
  • Lower interest rates have weakened the dollar.
  • These kinds of contradictions weaken your argument.
  • Plant in the fall before the first frost; planting in the spring weakens them.
    — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 22 May 2024
  • In the past six weeks, the euro has weakened more than 2 percent against the dollar.
    — Eshe Nelson, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2024
  • At the same time, some parts of the Sun's magnetic field weaken, and the field lines open out into space.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2023
  • But the strict law that ensured that success was weakened this year.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Hunger weakens the body’s defenses and opens the door to disease.
    — NBC News, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Ozone pollution, meanwhile, can stunt the growth of trees and weaken plants, per the report.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Mar. 2024
  • But the report warns that inequities could weaken progress.
    — Evan Bush, NBC News, 25 Oct. 2022
  • This weakens the shaft on each strand and increases the breakage rate.
    — Popular Science, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Rule number one: Never soak pearls as doing so can cause the string to weaken and break.
    — Lauren Smith McDonough, Good Housekeeping, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Punctures weaken the plants, but most of the damage comes from the honeydew falling onto the leaves and fruit.
    — Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 24 Sep. 2022
  • The heat dome is expected to weaken and shift west this weekend allowing for the heat to back off.
    — Kxas-Tv (nbc5), Dallas News, 4 Sep. 2023
  • The rain and gusty winds will persist throughout Saturday and then likely weaken by the evening.
    — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Or, did the 16th president, working late at night, read while sprawled on one side, weakening the stems?
    — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 1 Aug. 2024
  • But its 80-store network across 10 cities shrank last year as business weakened.
    — Subrat Patnaik, Bloomberg.com, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The goal of that part of the West is to weaken, divide and ultimately destroy our country.
    — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2022
  • The Court weakens the statute of limitations for challenges to agency rules.
    — John Quinn, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024
  • If the wave of Monday afternoon storms bring soaking rains, the severity of the evening storms may weaken.
    — Leo Bertucci, The Courier-Journal, 29 July 2024
  • Tomorrow night: Winds weaken as the sun dips below the horizon.
    — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2022
  • The emergence of new subvariants does weaken the effects of our vaccines.
    — Benjamin Mazer, The Atlantic, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Years of drought have killed tree roots, reducing their frictional ties to the soil, and weakened the general health of trees, McBride said.
    — Claire Hao, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Many shampoos with harsh chemicals strip your natural oils and weaken your hair’s bonds, leading to damaged cuticles.
    — Christa Joanna Lee, Allure, 23 Oct. 2024
  • The aide had hired three Russian contractors to conduct a covert online propaganda campaign to weaken global support for Ukraine’s attempt to repel Russia’s invasion.
    — David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024

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