"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
(7) defense, institution
Kolokacji: 2
1. weaken one's control = osłabiać czyjś kontrola weaken one's control
  • So far, they have picked up three seats, considerably weakening the Republicans' control.
  • His cursing had nothing to do with any belief that in doing so he would weaken Yahweh's control of the situation.
  • In turn, it weakens our enemies' control over their people.
  • And psychiatrists have criticized the rules, saying they may unintentionally weaken a patient's control over medical records.
  • White gets ready to eliminate the knight on f6, further weakening Black's control over the d5-square.
  • Reform politicians have weakened the party's control over patronage, a fundamental recruiting tool.
  • Japan's powerful Government bureaucrats are resistant to deregulation that would weaken their control over business activity.
  • After the dictatorship weakened its control in the early 1980s, the contributors began to write in their own name.
  • Of course, Morgan wouldn't have told him, it would have weakened his control.
  • How it didn't weaken the patient's control but was merely the harnessing of a process that occurred naturally for most people.
2. weaken standards = osłab standardy weaken standards
3. weaken regulations = osłab rozporządzenia weaken regulations
(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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