| 单词 | weaken |
| 释义 | weak·en transitive verb 1. < disease weakens the body > < fatigue weakened his grip > < wetting weakens paper > < floodwaters weakened the foundations of the bridge > < doubts weakened his resolve > < hypotheses which … weaken rather than affirm purely mechanistic interpretations of nature — J.W.Krutch > 2. < milk weakened one half to two thirds with plain boiled water — Morris Fishbein > intransitive verb 1. < steadily weakening storm > : lose strength or spirit or determination : become less firm or resolute < the Middle West was weakening in its allegiance to the Democratic party — American Guide Series: Ind. > 2. Synonyms: < weakened by failing health — C.H.Lincoln > < the days and nights of dissipation had weakened and depressed him — Louis Bromfield > < has left rural churches weakened in numbers and financial resources — American Guide Series: New York > < the spirit of adventure is not stimulated but weakened by poverty — M.R.Cohen > enfeeble implies a more obvious condition, usually suggesting a helplessness or feebleness or forcelessness < despite an enfeebled body, the mental faculties … can remain intact to the very end of life — Current Biography > < can excessive reading actually enfeeble one's thinking apparatus — A.N.Whitehead > < the years had not enfeebled his acting — E.H.Collis > debilitate suggests a less marked, usually more temporary, impairment of strength or vitality < ivy debilitates trees, disintegrates mortar in walls and dislodges roof tiles — F.D.Smith & Barbara Wilcox > < avoid embroilments which debilitate our strength — Current Biography > < the fears and the rages that debilitate — H.A.Overstreet > undermine and sap suggest a weakening by the effects of some surreptitious or insidious force, often carrying the idea of a draining of strength or a slow caving in or breaking down < the members of his family undermined by dissipation, crime and madness — Times Literary Supplement > < the emotions which would have undermined and demoralized him had he not sworn beforehand to abjure that — Marcia Davenport > < a gradual oxidation of the rubber thread which undermines the quality of the rubber — Albert Thompson & Sigfrid Bick > cripple, meaning basically to maim or mutilate, suggests a serious impairment of force or effect similar to if not greater than that caused by a loss of a limb to a person < the brain-injury victims, i.e., those who have been crippled by such things as blows, encephalitis, or a sustained high fever in infancy — Time > < a heavy winter snowfall cripples transportation — Corey Ford > disable implies any force that makes unfit or which incapacitates, especially suddenly < disabled for field work by an accident which resulted in the loss of his right leg — C.W.Mitman > < disabled the car so it wouldn't run — W.W.Haines > < an indifferent memory disabled him from mastering the Indian languages — Francis Parkman > |
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