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Synonyms for weaken

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Synonyms for weaken

to lessen or deplete the nerve, energy, or strength of

to lessen the strength of by or as if by admixture

to moderate or change a position or course of action as a result of pressure

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Synonyms for weaken

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Summary: Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], May 3 (ANI): The "Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm" Fani that made landfall at Puri on Friday morning with a wind speed of around 245 kmph has weakened into a "Very Severe Cyclonic Storm" with a wind speed of approximately 150-160 kmph.
The typhoon's maximum sustained winds weakened to 160 kilometers per hour near the center from the previous 185 kph.
He said the cold weather will continue until Wednesday, when the cold air mass will gradually start to weaken.
The Sudan central bank has said that it has decided to weaken the exchange rate at which banks can trade dollars.
The intervention by the central bank of Israel has weakened the local currency.
With 10 times leverage, retail investors can realize at least 50 percent annualized returns, assuming the exchange rate remains stable or the yen weakens. Such transactions are all the more attractive because of cheap trading costs.
For Caputo "scriptural hermeneutic" is "where the Word of God, the Scriptures, undergo what we might entitle a methodological transformation into an event." This definition quite precisely weakens the strong scriptural theology of a scientia divina that deploys a divine revelation with a uniquely authorized provenance; but it is a theologically engaged hermeneutics: it does not read scripture as a mere document to be studied historically or comparatively without "engaging my existence or passion." This is Caputo's consistent dance: to sidestep both the authoritarian traditions and the modernisms that remain content to relativize.
If Earth's magnetic field weakens, the amount of--radiation hitting Earth's surface will--.
Not only does Silverman's failure to consider recent work in Irish social history weaken her argument, it also greatly weakens her text.
Those that relate to Autism include: fear or shock that weakens the Kidney, over-pensiveness that weakens the Spleen and shock and anxiety that weakens the Heart.
It permanently blinds children, causes night blindness in adults, and weakens the immune system.
Originally meant as it was to bypass corrupt legislatures, it weakens the power of elected state government.
When the exchange rate weakens, normally you see liquidity conditions becoming very easy.
As the yen weakens, Japanese exports (representing 70 percent of the region's gross domestic product) become relatively cheaper in overseas markets compared to the goods of other Asian countries - a situation which becomes particularly difficult for those East Asian countries attempting to export their way out of their financial crisis.