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WEAKEN

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weaken verb A. tranzitiv

a slăbi, a micşora, a atenua, a anemia;

to weaken a blow a atenua o lovitură;

(tehn.) to weaken the mixture a slăbi / a dilua amestecul (în carburator).

weaken verb B. intranzitiv

a slăbi; a pierde puterile, a se anemia;

his courage weakens îi slăbeşte curajul.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

As CMT progresses, your lower legs may weaken.

(Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

Nothing happened the next day, or the next, to weaken her terrors.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

Ice shelves tend to weaken as they move, forming cracks and crevasses at their edges and stretch points.

(Scientists describe how 'upside-down rivers' of warm water break Antarctica's ice shelf, Wikinews)

It gave me an idea of what a terrible strain Lucy's system must have undergone that what weakened Arthur only partially restored her.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

You have always a profession, pursuits, business of some sort or other, to take you back into the world immediately, and continual occupation and change soon weaken impressions.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

Denied their usual food-supply, weakened by hunger, they fell upon and devoured one another.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

It was a subject, however, in which she often indulged with her fair friend, from whom she received every possible encouragement to continue to think of him; and his impression on her fancy was not suffered therefore to weaken.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

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.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

But since we see that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To feel that she ought to be in better circumstances, that a little trouble in the right place might do it, and to fear that delay might be even weakening her claims, was hard to bear.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

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