"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
(5) resolve, NATO
Kolokacji: 2
1. weaken one's resolve = osłabiać czyjś determinacja weaken one's resolve
2. weaken NATO = osłab NATO weaken NATO
  • And it would demonstrate to Americans that such a force would not be part of some effort to weaken NATO and counterbalance the United States.
  • Mr. Rumsfeld has said that the European deployment force makes him nervous because he sees it as possibly weakening NATO.
  • Mr. Shultz, saying the decision would weaken NATO, declined to say what action the United States would take if the decision is not reversed.
  • Britain - though not alone in this case - fought strongly to insure that this would not weaken NATO, to which 11 of the 12 also belong.
  • In the past, the United States has discouraged discussion of a security dimension for the community for fear that this could weaken NATO.
  • What we are getting is duplication outside NATO, to weaken NATO.
  • He also worries that any EC role in defence could weaken NATO.
  • Admitting former Warsaw Pact countries would weaken NATO in other ways.
  • But Germany as well as Britain and others are equally determined not to weaken NATO, which has long given Washington a voice in European affairs.
  • "Weaken NATO, and you weaken Europe, which weakens America."
(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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