"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 • ...
(3) system, muscle
Kolokacji: 2
(4) bone, case, argument
Kolokacji: 3
1. weaken bones = osłab kości weaken bones
2. weaken one's case = osłabiać czyjś przypadek weaken one's case
3. weaken one's argument = osłabiać czyjś argument weaken one's argument
  • Do not demand her 'respect' for you as a parent; it will weaken your argument.
  • Irenaeus' argument is that they would not weaken their own argument by adding years to Jesus' age.
  • It weakens its argument by being needlessly silent about costs.
  • Malebranche, however, weakened Descartes' argument, concluding that, from a philosophical point of view, its existence could only be shown to be probable.
  • Then he decided that they were not yet solid enough to voice to the marshal; and might, indeed, even weaken his argument.
  • And such a lack of dispassion weakens the one-sided film's bold and detailed argument".
  • All in all this kind of sloppy thinking with bogus examples weakens your argument- fatally.
  • This weakens the splitters' argument that to reconstitute high-level meaning from the basic ingredients requires only the right recipe.
  • Raycun, actually I think you weaken your argument with the snarky comment about how many Kindle users make that claim.
  • Ad-hominem attacks only serve to weaken your own argument.
(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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