Synset

lessen the strength of
<verb.change> freq. cnt.: 6 freq. cnt.: 6

sample sentences

"The fever weakened his body"

verb frames

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

weakening weakener

antonym

semantic pointers

hyponym

de-energize, de-energise break devitalize, devitalise shake depress unbrace etiolate cripple, stultify dilute, thin, thin out, reduce, cut rarefy, attenuate blunt temper, season, mollify, moderate debilitate, enfeeble, drain enervate dampen neutralize, neutralise, nullify, negate emasculate, castrate wash out

hypernym

change, alter, modify

cause