"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 support = zmniejsz wsparcie weaken support
3. weaken one's forces = osłabiać czyjś siły weaken one's forces
4. weaken one's hold = osłabiać czyjś uścisk weaken one's hold
  • He did not try again to weaken their hold upon his body, but once more he set to studying the ground ahead.
  • A scandal involving these elevators weakened his government's hold on power in the early 1910s.
  • This would weaken the government's so far firm hold on the economy.
  • The big risk of reforming the system is that it weakens the state's economic hold over its citizens.
  • This wasn't a situation where the Americans could pound the enemy with rockets and artillery to weaken their hold on a position.
  • But in the effort to do so he must have weakened his hold on the other wrist.
  • Seeing the ghosts must have already weakened her fragile hold on sanity.
  • Such a high negative vote, labor experts said, would embarrass him and perhaps weaken his hold on power.
  • We can reveal him, and likely that will weaken his hold over some.
  • Again, Labor sees this as an attempt to weaken its hold on local governments.
5. weaken one's grip = osłabiać czyjś chwyt weaken one's grip
(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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