heikentää — meaning in English

English meaning

• abate verb To become less strong or severe; to die down.
• bate verb To make something weaker or less strong.
• debase verb To reduce the quality or worth of something.
• debilitate verb To make someone or something weak.
• degrade verb To lower someone's dignity or status; to humiliate.
• deteriorate verb To get worse in quality or condition.
• dilute verb To make a liquid weaker or thinner by adding water or another solvent.
• enervate verb To lessen someone's strength or vigor; to weaken.
• fade verb To gradually lose color, brightness, strength, or intensity.
• impair verb To make something weaker or worse.
• rebate noun A partial refund given after a purchase or payment.
• sap noun The watery fluid that circulates through a plant, carrying nutrients.
• undermine verb To weaken support or confidence gradually, often secretly.
• weaken verb To make something less strong.

Senses

heikentää is used for these senses in English:

• abate To lessen (something) in force or intensity; to moderate. [from 14th c.]
• bate (transitive) To reduce the force of something; to abate.
• debase (transitive) To lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade.
• debilitate (transitive) To make feeble; to weaken.
• degrade (intransitive, ergative) To reduce in quality or purity.
• deteriorate (transitive) To make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair.
• dilute (transitive) To make thinner by adding solvent to a solution, especially by adding water.
• dilute (intransitive) To become attenuated, thin, or weak.

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.

bate — full definition

1. verb To make something weaker or less strong.
2. verb To hold something back, often while waiting eagerly for what comes next.
3. verb To take something away or get rid of it.
4. verb To not include something; to leave it out.

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