type |
v |
lex_filenum |
30 |
def |
lessen the strength of |
examples |
The fever weakened his body
|
Frame - 8 |
Somebody ----s something |
Frame - 9 |
Somebody ----s somebody |
Frame - 10 |
Something ----s somebody |
Frame - 11 |
Something ----s something |
Outgoing links |
Cause |
weaken |
Hypernym |
change, alter, modify |
Derivationally related form |
weaken → weakener; weaken → weakening |
Antonym |
weaken → strengthen |
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; enfeeble, debilitate, drain; enervate; dampen; neutralize, neutralise, nullify, negate; emasculate, castrate; wash out |
Incoming links |
Derivationally related form |
weakening → weaken; weakener → weaken |
Hypernym |
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; enfeeble, debilitate, drain; enervate; dampen; neutralize, neutralise, nullify, negate; emasculate, castrate; wash out |
Hyponym |
change, alter, modify |
Antonym |
strengthen → weaken |
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