"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
  • Weaken the heart's ability to contract, leading to heart failure.1 Cause dangerous side effects when combined with many different common medicines.
  • Emotion also weakens our ability to remember the source from the event.
  • Gray figured they were just waiting for the pall of death to weaken his ability to fight.
  • This weakened the administration's ability to get its policies through Congress.
  • The combined effect would be to weaken Britain's government and its ability to play a part in world affairs.
  • The virus weakens a person's ability to fight infections and cancer.
  • States have to give up part of their sovereignty, which weakens the state's ability to assert its authority.
  • He was involved in many disputes, which were said to have weakened his writing ability.
  • They may allow us to shop more often, but they weaken our ability to pay the bill.
  • The conference committee also weakened the Government's ability to preserve wetlands, something neither house had done on its own.
3. weaken one's authority = osłabiać czyjś władza weaken one's authority
4. weaken confidence = osłab zwierzenie weaken confidence
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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