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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

  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 reduce the force of something; to abate.
  2. verb To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation
  3. verb To cut off, remove, take away.
  4. verb To leave out, except, bar.

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