schwächen — meaning in English
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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.
- enervate verb To lessen someone's strength or vigor; to weaken.
- eviscerate verb To take out the internal organs of a body.
- impair verb To make something weaker or worse.
- undermine verb To weaken support or confidence gradually, often secretly.
- waste noun Material that is no longer wanted or useful; rubbish.
- weaken verb To make something less strong.
Senses
schwächen 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.
- emasculate (transitive) To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness. [from early 17th c.]
- enfeeble (transitive) To make feeble.
- eviscerate (transitive) To destroy or make ineffectual or meaningless.
- impair (transitive) To weaken; to affect negatively; to have a diminishing effect on.
- undermine (figuratively) To weaken or work against; to hinder, sabotage. [from 15th c.]
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 make something smaller, weaker or less in amount.
- verb To make something thinner, for example by shaping, starving or decay.
- verb To grow thinner or become less.
- verb To make a bacterium or virus less able to cause disease.
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