verzwakken — meaning in English
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English meaning
- abate verb To become less strong or severe; to die down.
- attenuate verb To reduce in size, force, value, amount, or degree.
- debilitate verb To make feeble; to weaken.
- decline verb To become weaker, smaller, or worse over time.
- enervate verb To reduce strength or energy; debilitate.
- eviscerate verb To disembowel; to remove the viscera.
- fade verb To gradually lose colour, brightness, strength, or intensity.
- flag noun A piece of cloth with a distinctive design, used as a symbol of a country, organization, or signal.
- impair verb To weaken; to affect negatively; to have a diminishing effect on.
- impoverish verb To make poor.
- languish verb To gradually lose strength, vitality, or spirit, especially over a long period of neglect or hardship.
- sap noun The watery fluid that circulates through a plant, carrying nutrients.
- unnerve verb To deprive of nerve, force, or strength; to weaken; to enfeeble. Compare enervate.
- weaken verb To make something less strong.
Senses
verzwakken is used for these senses in English:
- abate To lessen (something) in force or intensity; to moderate. [from 14th c.]
- attenuate (transitive) To weaken.
- debilitate (transitive) To make feeble; to weaken.
- decline (intransitive) To become weaker or worse.
- eviscerate (transitive) To destroy or make ineffectual or meaningless.
- fade (intransitive) To grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.
- flag (intransitive) To weaken, become feeble.
- impair (transitive) To weaken; to affect negatively; to have a diminishing effect on.
abate — full definition
- verb To become less strong or severe; to die down.
- verb (law) To cancel or bring a legal matter to an end.
attenuate — full definition
- verb To reduce in size, force, value, amount, or degree.
- verb To make thinner, as by physically reshaping, starving, or decaying.
- verb To become thin or fine; to grow less.
- verb To reduce the virulence of a bacterium or virus.