verzwakken — meaning in English

English meaning

• abate verb To become less strong or severe; to die down.
• attenuate verb To make something smaller, weaker or less in amount.
• debilitate verb To make someone or something weak.
• decline verb To become weaker, smaller, or worse over time.
• enervate verb To lessen someone's strength or vigor; to weaken.
• eviscerate verb To take out the internal organs of a body.
• fade verb To gradually lose color, 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 make something weaker or worse.
• impoverish verb To make someone 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 take away someone's strength or courage, leaving them weak.
• 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

1. verb To become less strong or severe; to die down.
2. verb (law) To cancel or bring a legal matter to an end.

attenuate — full definition

1. verb To make something smaller, weaker or less in amount.
2. verb To make something thinner, for example by shaping, starving or decay.
3. verb To grow thinner or become less.
4. verb To make a bacterium or virus less able to cause disease.

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