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WEAKENED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Damaged; used of inanimate objects or their value
Synonyms:
hurt; weakened
Classified under:
Similar:
damaged (harmed or injured or spoiled)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Mixed with water
Example:
a cup of thinned soup
Synonyms:
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dilute; diluted (reduced in strength or concentration or quality or purity)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Reduced in strength
Example:
the faded tones of an old recording
Synonyms:
attenuate; attenuated; faded; weakened
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
decreased; reduced (made less in size or amount or degree)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Impaired by diminution
Synonyms:
diminished; lessened; vitiated; weakened
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Adjectives
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impaired (diminished in strength, quality, or utility)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Made weak or weaker
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
weak (wanting in physical strength)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb weaken
Context examples:
The weakened strains are used as vaccines because they stimulate a protective immune response while causing no disease or only mild disease in the person receiving the vaccine.
(Attenuated, NCI Dictionary)
It usually occurs in people with lung diseases or weakened immune systems.
(Aspergillosis, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
This does not kill the cnidarian partner but does leave it badly weakened and vulnerable to disease.
(Voracious fish defend coral reefs against warming, Wikinews)
As a result, the cell wall is weakened and the cell lyses.
(Ampicillin Sodium/Sulbactam Sodium, NCI Thesaurus)
The solution is made from a weakened form of the bacterium Mycobacterium bovis (bacillus Calmette-Guerin) that does not cause disease but stimulates the body's immune system.
(BCG solution, NCI Dictionary)
A rare, inherited, progressive, degenerative disease of childhood that causes loss of muscle control, a weakened immune system, and an increased risk of cancer.
(Ataxia Telangiectasia Syndrome, NCI Dictionary)
You are more likely to get a fungal infection if you have a weakened immune system or take antibiotics.
(Fungal Infections, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
I awoke in the morning shaken, weakened, but refreshed.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
I determined that the time had come when I should reveal myself to my son, the more so as there were many signs that my most unnatural existence had seriously weakened my health.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Opportunistic infections occur in people with weakened immune systems.
(Opportunistic infection, NCI Dictionary)
