To lessen (authority, influence, power, credit), †to lower the value of (something); †to impoverish (an estate).
单词 | θ172613 |
释义 | society > authority > lack of power > deprive of power [verb (transitive)] > reduce the power of (7) weaken1530 To lessen (authority, influence, power, credit), †to lower the value of (something); †to impoverish (an estate). to shorten the arm or hand of1535 transitive. To make shorter, to diminish the length of, to abridge, curtail. figurative. In Biblical phrase, to shorten the armor hand of: to… weaken1568 To render weaker in resources, authority, political or military power, or the like. emasculate1608 transferred and figurative. To deprive of strength and vigour; to weaken, make effeminate and cowardly; to enfeeble, impoverish (language). to pare the claws of1884 figurative. (Chiefly in in one's claws, etc., implying the notion of seizing, or having in one's possession or power.) to pare the claws of is a… defang1919 transitive. figurative. To render (a person or thing) harmless or ineffectual; to weaken or disempower. declaw1940 transitive. figurative. To deprive (a person or thing) of force or power; to render harmless or ineffectual. Cf. defang, v. 2. |
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