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say it: WEE-kuhn
weaken is a verb meaning "lessen the strength of". It carries 5 recorded senses.
destroy property or hinder normal operations
“The Resistance sabotaged railroad operations during the war”
reduce the level or intensity or size or scope of
“de-escalate a crisis”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for weaken come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.