"weaken" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

weaken verbo

weaken + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 33
weaken one's position • weaken one's ability • weaken the system • weaken the power • weaken bones • ...
verbo + weaken
Kolokacji: 6
begin to weaken • continue to weaken • begin weakening • cause to weaken • help weaken • ...
weaken + preposición
Kolokacji: 21
weakened by • weaken in • weaken with • weaken to • weaken over • ...
weaken + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 45
further weaken • severely weakened • greatly weakened • rapidly weaken • significantly weaken • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 10
1. rapidly weaken = szybko osłab rapidly weaken
3. quickly weaken = szybko osłab quickly weaken
4. slowly weaken = wolno osłab slowly weaken
6. surely weaken = na pewno osłab surely weaken
7. terribly weakened = szalenie osłabić terribly weakened
  • She'd been terribly weakened by her holdout, and I was concerned for her.
  • For their part, the Chechens, whose republic has been devastated in the last year, have been weakened terribly.
  • The colony in this hive have already been terribly weakened by varroa and the last thing they need is a wasp invasion.
  • Because of the lie, we are strong, when we might have been terribly weakened.
  • She was terribly weakened; even as I spoke, her knees gave way.
  • To the Editor: The article expressed many of my own feelings about this great, though terribly weakened institution.
  • And it appears he was in a terribly weakened condition to begin with.
  • He is beginning to put some flesh on his bones again, but he was terribly weakened by the long illness.
  • "I'll try," he said mournfully, dragging his feet as if terribly weakened.
  • The cells are terribly weakened, and he insists that Moore's work during last day did much to hasten their dissolution.
(3) gradually, suddenly
Kolokacji: 2
(4) slightly, somewhat
Kolokacji: 2
(5) considerably, substantially
Kolokacji: 2
(8) sharply, clearly
Kolokacji: 2

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