"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 • ...
1. weaken one's ability = osłabiać czyjś umiejętność weaken one's ability
3. weaken one's authority = osłabiać czyjś władza weaken one's authority
4. weaken confidence = osłab zwierzenie weaken confidence
  • This prospect tends to inject a significant amount of uncertainty into the economy and weakens confidence.
  • Given the need to pay such high rates on its debt, the government needed to borrow even more, further weakening confidence and pushing the rates still higher.
  • However, their reforms only weakened confidence in the government and did not slow the Mesnard's march.
  • It weakens foreign confidence in Iran as an investment market and strengthens the domestic opponents of the increasingly unpopular regime.
  • The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions said it feared strikes would weaken confidence in the nation's effort to rebuild its economy.
  • Suharto's foot-dragging in undertaking reforms demanded by IMF in relation to his children's business further weakened public confidence.
  • With this in mind we must make sure that this factor alone, external value, does not weaken confidence in the euro.
  • Surely that is only going to weaken confidence in the euro?
  • Its fear is that such use could weaken public confidence in the system's integrity.
5. weaken one's hand = osłabiać czyjś ręka weaken one's hand
6. weaken one's credibility = osłabiać czyjś wiarygodność weaken one's credibility
(3) system, muscle
Kolokacji: 2
(4) bone, case, argument
Kolokacji: 3
(5) resolve, NATO
Kolokacji: 2
(7) defense, institution
Kolokacji: 2
(9) Russia, Iraq, Empire
Kolokacji: 3
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 • ...

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