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WEAKENED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does weakened mean?
• WEAKENED (adjective)
The adjective WEAKENED has 5 senses:
1. impaired by diminution
2. made weak or weaker
3. reduced in strength
4. mixed with water
5. damaged; used of inanimate objects or their value
Familiarity information: WEAKENED used as an adjective is common.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Impaired by diminution
Synonyms:
diminished; lessened; vitiated; weakened
Similar:
impaired (diminished in strength, quality, or utility)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Made weak or weaker
Similar:
weak (wanting in physical strength)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Reduced in strength
Synonyms:
attenuate; attenuated; faded; weakened
Context example:
the faded tones of an old recording
Similar:
decreased; reduced (made less in size or amount or degree)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Mixed with water
Synonyms:
Context example:
a cup of thinned soup
Similar:
dilute; diluted (reduced in strength or concentration or quality or purity)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Damaged; used of inanimate objects or their value
Synonyms:
hurt; weakened
Similar:
damaged (harmed or injured or spoiled)
Context examples
As a result, cell wall synthesis is interrupted leading to a weakened cell wall and eventually cell lysis.
(Piperacillin Anhydrous, NCI Thesaurus)
A drug used to treat infections with herpesviruses in people whose immune systems are weakened by AIDS.
(Foscarnet sodium, NCI Dictionary)
It is most common in older people and in people with weakened immune systems.
(Merkel cell cancer, NCI Dictionary)
Having a weakened immune system caused by certain diseases or treatments.
(Immunocompromised, NCI Dictionary)
Vaccines contain germs that have been killed or weakened.
(Immunization, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
A weakened form of the bacterium Mycobacterium bovis (bacillus Calmette-Guérin) that does not cause disease.
(bacillus Calmette-Guérin, NCI Dictionary)
The solution is made from a weakened form of a bacterium called Mycobacterium bovis (bacillus Calmette-Guérin) that does not cause disease.
(bacillus Calmette-Guérin solution, NCI Dictionary)
She weakened, I think, but her will was strong, and when next I called she had left the town.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Absence had increased her desire of seeing Charlotte again, and weakened her disgust of Mr. Collins.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Absence might have weakened his regard, and convenience might have determined him to overcome it, but that such a regard had formerly existed she could not bring herself to doubt.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
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