heikentää — meaning in English
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English meaning
- abate verb To become less strong or severe; to die down.
- bate verb To reduce the force of something; to abate.
- debase verb To lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade.
- debilitate verb To make feeble; to weaken.
- 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 reduce strength or energy; debilitate.
- fade verb To gradually lose colour, brightness, strength, or intensity.
- impair verb To weaken; to affect negatively; to have a diminishing effect on.
- 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
- verb To become less strong or severe; to die down.
- verb (law) To cancel or bring a legal matter to an end.
bate — full definition
- verb To reduce the force of something; to abate.
- verb To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation
- verb To cut off, remove, take away.
- verb To leave out, except, bar.