Weaken

Definitions: Weaken

Weaken

Verb

1. Lessen the strength of; "The fever weakened his body".

2. Become weaker; "The prisoner's resistance weakened after seven days".

3. Destroy property or hinder normal operations; "The Resistance sabotaged railroad operations during the war".

4. Reduce the level or intensity of; "de-escalate a crisis".

5. Lessen in force or effect; "soften a shock"; "break a fall".

Date "weaken" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1517. (references)

Synonyms: Weaken

Synonyms: break (v), counteract (v), countermine (v), damp (v), dampen (v), de-escalate (v), sabotage (v), soften (v), step down (v), subvert (v), undermine (v). (additional references)

Antonyms: escalate (v), strengthen (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Deterioration	Deteriorate; weaken; put back, set back; taint, infect, contaminate, poison, empoison, envenom, canker, corrupt, exulcerate, pollute, vitiate, inquinate; debase, embase; denaturalize, denature, leaven; deflower, debauch, defile, deprave, degrade; ulcerate; stain; (dirt); discolor; alloy, adulterate, sophisticate, tamper with, prejudice.
Evidence	Verb: countervail, oppose; mitigate against; rebut; (refute); subvert; (destroy); cheek, weaken; contravene; contradict; (deny); tell the other side of the story, tell another story, turn the scale, alter the case; turn the tables; cut both ways; prove a negative.
Impotence	Shatter, exhaust, weaken.
Moderation	Moderate, soften, mitigate, temper, accoy; attemper, contemper; mollify, lenify, dulcify, dull, take off the edge, blunt, obtund, sheathe, subdue, chasten; sober down, tone down, smooth down; weaken; lessen; (decrease); check palliate.
Nonaddition Subtraction	Diminish; curtail; (shorten); deprive of; (take); weaken.
Nonincrease, Decrease	Bate, abate, dequantitate; discount; depreciate; extenuate, lower, weaken, attenuate, fritter away; mitigate; (moderate); dwarf, throw into the shade; reduce; shorten; subtract. Adjective: unincreased; (see increase;); decreased; Verb: decreasing; Verb: on the wane; n.
Weakness	Render weak; Adjective: weaken, enfeeble, debilitate, shake, deprive of strength, relax, enervate, eviscerate; unbrace, unnerve; cripple, unman; (render powerless); cramp, reduce, sprain, strain, blunt the edge of; dilute, impoverish; decimate; extenuate; reduce in strength, reduce the strength of; mettre de l'eau dans son vin.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Weaken

English words defined with "weaken": American mistletoe, attenuate, attrition ♦ break ♦ Disinvigorate ♦ enervate, Enerve ♦ Grigori Efimovich Rasputin ♦ Imbecilitate ♦ Labefy ♦ Phoradendron flavescens, Phoradendron serotinum ♦ rarefy, Rasputin ♦ To tone down ♦ Weak. (references)

Specialty definitions using "weaken": Acid-free ♦ cutter plow ♦ defense in depth ♦ FIB ♦ Prince's Peers ♦ SOCIETY SLANG, special mention, Splitting Storm ♦ tropical storm. (references)

Etymologies containing "weaken": Disinvigorate ♦ Imbecilitate. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	All you did was weaken a country today, Kaffee. (A Few Good Men; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin) Dames are put on this earth to weaken us, drain our energy, laugh at us when they see us naked. (Johnny Dangerously; writing credit: Harry Colomby; Jeff Harris) Women weaken legs! (Rocky; writing credit: Sylvester Stallone)
Movie/TV Titles	Never Weaken (1921) Don't Weaken! (1920)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	The delusion of sovereignty : would independence weaken Québec? (reference) If You Don't Weaken (American Autobiography) (reference) If you don't weaken; the autobiography of Oscar Ameringer (reference) It's a Good Life: If You Don't Weaken (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Root-rotting fungi can weaken, stunt, or kill sugar beet plants. Here, geneticist Leonard Panella evaluates sugar beet plants for resistance to the fungal disease Rhizoctonia root rot. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Charles De Montesquieu	Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Cement doubtless there was none, but as in certain Roman walls, that did not weaken its rigid architecture.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Bones weaken and break easily. (references)
		They weaken because they no longer get female hormones. (references)
		This can weaken the resistance of gum and bone tissue to infection. (references)
Business		At the same time Russia's economic transition, accompanying government debt and the associated wide spread plunge in living standards tends to reduce the urgency with which the issue is viewed by some on the Russian side. Limited budgetary resources weaken the effectiveness of official organs of enforcement. (references)
Civil Liberties	Colombia	Both paramilitary groups and guerrillas used forced displacements to gain control over disputed territories and to weaken their opponents' base of support. (references)
	Laos	The Penal Code forbids slandering the State, distorting party or state policies, inciting disorder, or propagating information or opinions that weaken the State. (references)
	Russia	Faced with continuing financial difficulties and increased pressure from the Government and large, private companies with reported links to the Government, many media organizations saw their autonomy weaken during the year. (references)
Economic History	Sri Lanka	However, exports could weaken given the US slowdown. (references)
	Finland	Prospects in the manufacturing industry began to weaken towards the end of 2000, and the stock of orders fell slightly below normal. (references)
	Korea	These measures could encourage chaebol to sell off some of their constituent companies and weaken chaebol dominance in the economy at large. (references)
Human Rights	Zimbabwe	The Constitution prohibits arbitrary arrest and detention; however, some laws effectively weaken this prohibition, and security forces arbitrarily arrested and detained persons repeatedly. (references)
	Dominican Republic	Civil society groups argue that police courts violate the Constitution, and that they weaken the separation and independence of governmental functions, as well as the exclusivity of the judicial function in the administration of justice. (references)
	China	Persons can gain a reduction in, or suspension of, their sentences after appeal; appeals usually are not successful, however, because of problems such as short appeal times and inadequate legal counsel, which weaken the effectiveness of the law in preventing or reversing arbitrary decisions. (references)
Political Economy	PARAGUAY	Domestic industry has successfully lobbied to weaken the law. (references)
	MALAYSIA	However, severe restrictions on the right to strike weaken collective bargaining rights. (references)
	Papua New Guinea	During the year, the national currency, the kina, continued to weaken in foreign exchange markets although domestic inflation fell below 10 percent for the first time in 3 years. (references)
Political Rights	Singapore	Opposition political figures have claimed that such strict compliance requirements weaken opposition parties. (references)
	Singapore	Often these means are fully consistent with the law and the normal prerogatives of government, but the overall effect (and, many argue, ultimate purpose) is to disadvantage and weaken the political opposition. (references)
	Jordan	Opponents of the measure claim that the consolidations are an attempt to undermine the strength of Islamist parties in local government, and that it will weaken the democratic process at the municipal level by reducing the number of locally elected officials. (references)
Worker Rights	Pakistan	The second provision is an attempt to weaken the power of the federations. (references)
	Thailand	Internal conflicts, corruption, and a lack of influential leadership continued to weaken the labor movement. (references)
	Cyprus	Officials of independent labor unions also have accused the Turkish Cypriot authorities of creating rival public sector unions to weaken the independent unions. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth. An habitual liar's nearest approach to truth: the perigee of his eccentric orbit. When David said: "All men are liars," Dave, Himself a liar, fibbed like any thief. Perhaps he thought to weaken disbelief By proof that even himself was not a slave To Truth; though I suspect the aged knave Had been of all her servitors the chief Had he but known a fig's reluctant leaf Is more than e'er she wore on land or wave. No, David served not Naked Truth when he Struck that sledge-hammer blow at all his race; Nor did he hit the nail upon the head: For reason shows that it could never be, And the facts contradict him to his face. Men are not liars all, for some are dead. Bartle Quinker
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	The injury of such a warfare must fall, though unequally, upon our own citizens, and could not but impair the means of the Government and weaken that united sentiment in support of the rights and honor of the nation which must now pervade every bosom.
Woodrow Wilson	1913-1921	Society must see to it that it does not itself crush or weaken or damage its own constituent parts.
Lyndon B. Johnson	1963-1969	To yield to force in Vietnam would weaken that confidence, would undermine the independence of many lands, and would whet the appetite of aggression.
Bill Clinton	1993-2001	Lobbyists for polluters have been allowed to write their own loopholes into bills to weaken laws that protect the health and safety of our children.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Weaken" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 78.82% of the time. "Weaken" is used about 406 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	78.82%	320	16,119
Lexical Verb (base form)	21.18%	86	35,638
Total	100.00%	406	N/A

Language		Translations for "weaken"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		telikos (wear out), pakësohem (decrease, diminish, drop off, dwindle, ease off, ease up, fall off, lessen, melt, peter out, recede, slip, wane, worsen), ligështohem (droop, fail, faint, falter), leqendis (afflict, enfeeble), dobësoj (attenuate, debilitate, depauperate, depress, devitalize, dilute, dim, diminish, dull, emaciate, emasculate, enervate, enfeeble, impair, reduce, use up), dobësohem (become weak, decay, dilute, ebb, fail, flag, grow feeble, grow thin, lag, languish, melt, reduce, relax, sink, slip, tone down, wane, wilt). (various references)

Arabic		‏وهن (asthenia, attenuate, attenuation, damp, dampen, debilitate, debility, decay, discouragement, distemper, droop, enervate, enfeeble, extenuate, feebleness, imitators, infirmity, invalidate, languish, languishment, languor, pall, relax, sap, shrivel, sickliness, thin, weak spot, weaklings), ‏إستهتر (decry, give short shrift, loiter, look down on, racket), ‏أضعف (attenuate, break, debilitate, decay, decline, depress, detach, diminish, disable, emaciate, emasculate, enervate, enfeeble, fade, geld, hone, hurt, impair, incapacitate, invalidate, jellify, languish, lose weight, macerate, neutralize, pall, perish, reduce, run down, sag, sap, shorten, sink, slacken, slake, soften, subside, thin, waste). (various references)

Bulgarian		отслабям (abate, cripple, depauperate, ease, loosen, reduce, relax, remit, shake, wear down), отслабвам (abate, become peaky, become thin and hollow-cheeked, become weak, diminish, languish, lose weight, moderate, sag, slim, thin, wind down, wither), проявявам слабост, проявявам колебание. (various references)

Chinese		弱化 (make weaker), 削弱 , 减弱 (Weakened, weakening). (various references)

Czech		zmenšit (abate, deplete, diminish, lessen, reduce, scale down, whittle away), zeslabit (become weak, depress, diminish, enervate, impair, reduce), uvolnit (disembody, disengage, dislodge, free, let loose, loose, relax, release, undo, unfix, unfreeze, unpin, unscrew, unstop, unstrap, untie, vacate), slábnout (decline, die away, die down, ebb away, fade, fade away, fade out, fail, falter, flag), oslabit (blunt, debilitate, disable, disenable, emasculate, enfeeble, impair). (various references)

Dutch		aanlengen (dilute). (various references)

Esperanto		malfortigi, malfortiĝi (abate), aldoni akvon al (dilute). (various references)

Farsi		کم نیروشدن , کم کردن (Alleviate, Bate, Cut, Deduce, Deduct, Detract, Drawoff, Extenuate, Rebate, Reduce, Relax, Retrench, Shade, Soften, Subtract, Thin), تقلیل دادن (Attenuate, Cutback, Cutdown, Lessen, Scrimp), سست کردن (Discourage, Enervate, Inactivate, Loosen, Slacken), سست شدن (Flag, Swoon, Unclench, Unclinch), ضعیف کردن (Debilitate, Fray, Sap, Unnerve), ضعیف شدن . (various references)

Finnish		veltostaa (make slack, slacken), raueta (be dropped, lose strength), laimeta (become weak, flag, go flat, lose its strength, slacken), laimentaa (dilute, lessen), herpaista (paralyse, unnerve), heiketä (abate, decrease, die down, grow weaker, lose strength), heikentyä (debilitate, enfeeble, impair). (various references)

French		affaiblir. (various references)

German		schwächen (bate, debilitate, depress, enervate, enervations, enfeeble, flaccidities, foibles, frailties, impoverish, infirmities, lower, pull down, reduce, relieve, sap, soften up, to bate, to debilitate, to enfeeble, undermine, unnerve, weaknesses), abschwächen (attenuate, deaden, dull, extenuate, lessen, mellow, muffle, soften, temper, to attenuate, to extenuate, tone down, understate, water down). (various references)

Greek		εξασθενίζω (debilitate, die away, enervate, enfeeble, wane), αποδυναμώνω (impoverish). (various references)

Hebrew		לחלוש (become weak), להתיש (sap, tell on), להחליש (abate, attenuate, deaden, detach, enervate, enfeeble, impair, slacken, wear down), להחלש (become weak, decline, flag, grow weak, run down, wilt), לדלדל (deplete, exhaust, impoverish), לרופף (loosen, slacken), נחלש. (various references)

Hungarian		gyengít (emasculate, labefy, stultify, to deaden, to degrade, to extenuate, to slack, to slacken, to stultify, to weaken). (various references)

Icelandic		þynna (dilute). (various references)

Indonesian		mendaifkan, melemahkan (debilitate, enervate, enfeeble), melaifkan (attenuate, enfeeble). (various references)

Italian		indebolire (break down, depress, enervations, enfeeble, etiolate, impair, impoverish, undermine, weaknesses), debilitare (debilitate). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		衰替 (declining). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		すいたい (decadence, decay, decline, declining, drunkenness, ebb tide, intoxication, presided over by, waning, weakening). (various references)

Korean		약해지십시요. (various references)

Manx		jannoo faase, annoonaghey (grow weak). (various references)

Pig Latin		eakenway

Portuguese		reduzir (Bate, boil down, curtail, cut, decrease, diminish, lessen, minify, minimize, reduce, restrict, retrench, scale, scrimp, shorten, sink, skimp, slash, to reduce, wear down, write off), realce (enhance, foil, relief, stress, underling, understrapper), enfraquecer (abate, attenuate, decay, diminish, enervate, extenuate, fade, fail, faint, flag, flatten, impair, impoverish, jade, languish, peak, pine, rust, sap, slacken, undermine, waste), debilitar (attenuate, crock, debilitate, depress, enervation, enfetter, etiology, impair, impoverish, languish, unbrace, undermine, unnerve), ceder (abandon, break, bring to one's knees, cede, convey, demise, desist, dispose of, folder, give in, give up, give way, go, hand over, humor, humour, indulge, knucklebone, part with, prelude, pull off, relinquish, resign, sag, sell, sink, spare, submit, succumb, to yield, transfer, truckle, vail, vend, yield), atenuar (attenuate, blunt, dilute, diminish, lessen, mitigation, modish, mutation, qualify, reduce, relax, relieve, shade, slake, soft pedal, soften), amortecer (absorb, amortize, benumb, blunt, break, cushion, damp, dampen, deaden, fade, muffle, rebate), afrouxar (ease, let up, loose, loosen, relax, slacken, unbend, unbrace, unfix), adulterar (adulterate, bast, betray, commit adultery, dash, debase, dilute, doctor, dope, drug, falsify, fill an order, garble, loaded, misinterpret, sophisticate, spoil, tamper), abater (abased, abate, abater, butcher, deject, depress, discount, dishearten, down, fell, knock down, lay, lower, prostrate, rebate, reduce, retrench, shoot down, sink, slaughter, tumble down, unman). (various references)

Romanian		zdruncina (concuss, convulse, jog, jolt, shake, shatter, shock, stagger, undermine, unstring), slãbi (abate, attenuate, Bate, crock, debilitate, depauperate, diminish, drain, droop, dull, ease, emaciate, emasculate, enfeeble, extenuate, fade, fail, flag, go down, grow weak, impair, languish, let, loosen, lose flesh, lose weight, macerate, mine, peak and pine, pinch, pull down, reduce, relax, sap, sink, slack, slacken, slenderize, slim, soften, subdue, subside, take the edge off, thin, undermine), slãbãnogi, reduce (abate, abridge, ax, axe, bear down, bring, cancel out, contract, curtail, cut, decrease, derogate, detract, diminish, discount, draw in, drop, extenuate, fine down, knock down, knock off, lessen, lower, make good, narrow down, pare down, prune, recover, reduce, retrench, slacken, stint, stop, unbend), moleşi (emasculate, enervate, soften), micşora (abate, abridge, attenuate, Bate, belittle, contract, cut, deaden, decrease, detract, dilute, dock, drop, dwarf, ease, knock down, lessen, lighten, lower, mellow, mitigate, narrow, palliate, pare, pare down, put down, rebate, reduce, remit, restrain, retrench, shorten, stop, subdue, subjugate, whittle away), lãsa (abandon, alight, allow, break, cast off, cease, create, diminish, discontinue, drop, fail, forsake, free, leave, leave behind, let, put away, quit, relinquish, renounce, secure, settle, sink, sprout, stop, suffer), dilua (attenuate, dilute, dissolve, temper), debilita (debilitate), şubrezi (dilapidate, waste). (various references)

Russian		слабеть (fail, give, languish, peak, relax, slacken). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		slabiti (fail, lower), oslabiti (become weak, debilitate, devitalize, enervate, enfeeble, go to the dogs, lose weight, relax, relieve, unfix). (various references)

Spanish		debilitar (abate, debilitate, devitalize, enervations, enfeeble, impair, lay out, lower, soften, waste, weaknesses), amainar (abate, decrease, diminish, drop, ease, fall, shorten). (various references)

Swedish		matta (carpet, dull, mat, rug), försvaga (attenuate, bring low, debilitate, depress, devitalize, dilute, diminish, emasculate, enervate, enfeeble, impair, reduce, sap, unnerve), avmatta. (various references)

Turkish		zayıflatmak (cripple, damp down, debilitate, emaciate, emasculate, enervate, evirate, fade, impair, impoverish, reduce, slim, soften, thin down, thin of, thin out, wear away, wear down), zayıflamak (be on the wane, decay, decline, fade, grow lean, grow thin, loose flesh, peak, reduce, slim, thin, thin down, thin of, thin out), kuvvetsizleşmek, hafifletmek (allay, alleviate, appease, assuage, attenuate, commute, deaden, de-escalate, ease, emasculate, extenuate, facilitate, lighten, mitigate, moderate, modify, palliate, qualify, relieve, remit, soft pedal, subdue, water), gücünü azaltmak (damp, damp down), güçsüzleştirmek (impoverish), cansızlaştırmak (devitalize, dilute). (various references)

Turkmen		haяallamak (deteriorate, slacken), gowюamak, asgynlamak. (various references)

Ukranian		слабшати (abate, ebb, fall, impair, pink in, sink, slack, wane), ослабляти (abate, allay, attenuate, deaden, debilitate, depress, emasculate, enfeeble, extenuate, impair, infirm, let down, loosen, lower, overcome, relax, slack, slacken, subdue, unbind, water), знижуватися (descend, lower, run low, wither), піддаватися (surrender, yield). (various references)

Welsh		llesga/u (faint, languish), gwanychu (enfeeble), gwanhau (enfeeble). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	abicio, accidat, acciderant, acciderat, accidere, accideret, acciderit, acciderunt, accidissent, accidisset, accidit, adbreviasti, adbreviata, adbreviatus, adbreviavit, adfecerunt, adfectu, adficere, adficerent, adficiam, adficiant, adficiar, adficient, adficientes, adficio, adflicto affligo, adtenuabit, adtenuabitur, adtenuabuntur, adtenuaris, adtenuasti, adtenuati, adtenuatus, adtenuetur, affecti, affectu, affectum, affligo, attero, castro, comminuo, concussa, concussae, concussit, concussum, concutiam, concutiatis, concutiatur, concutiens, concutientis, concutientur, concutitur, corrumpo, decrescebant, decrescens, decreta, decreti, decretis, decreto, decretum, decreveram, decreverat, decreverunt, decreveruntque, decrevi, decrevimus, decrevit, decrevitque, deficio, effeminati, effeminatis, effeminatorum, effeminatos, enervare, fractae, fracti, fractione, fractionis, fractis, fracto, fractum, fractura, fracturam, fractus, frange, frangebat, frangendum, frangensque, frangent, frangentes, frangerentur, frangeret, franges, frangetur, frangimus, frangit, fregerunt, fregi, fregisset, fregit, infima, infirma, infirmabatur, infirmaberis, infirmabitur, infirmabuntur, infirmarer, infirmata, infirmatae, infirmati, infirmatur, infirmatus, infirmes, infirmo, infirmor, infregi, infringere, infringetur, infringo, infringo, infregi, infractum, laxa, laxabo, laxantes, laxate, laxati, levo, macero, quassatam, quassatum, retunsae, retunsum. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Isaiah Chapter 14, Verse 12
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	PwV exepesen ek tou ouranou o ewsforoV o prwi anatellwn sunetribh eiV thn ghn o apostellwn proV panta ta eqnh
Latin	405	Vulgate	Quomodo cecidisti de caelo lucifer qui mane oriebaris corruisti in terram qui vulnerabas gentes
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	Hou felle thou, Lucyfer, fro heuene, the whiche erli sprunge; thou felle in to the erthe, that woundedest the folkes of kynde.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
Victorian English	1833	Webster	How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
Basic English	1964	Ogden	How great is your fall from heaven, O shining one, son of the morning! How are you cut down to the earth, low among the dead bodies!
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Isaiah Chapter 14, Verse 12
Cebuano	Naunsa ang pagkahulog mo gikan sa langit, Oh kabugason, anak sa kabuntagon! naunsa ang pagkalumpag mo ngadto sa yuta, nga ikaw man unta ang nagalumpag sa mga nasud!
Croatian	Kako pade sa nebesa, Svjetlonošo, sine Zorin? Kako li si oboren na zemlju, ti, vladaru naroda?
Danish	Nej, at du faldt fra Himlen; du strålende Morgenstjerne, fældet og kastet til Jorden, du Folkebetvinger!
Dutch	Hoe zijt gij uit den hemel gevallen, o morgenster, gij zoon des dageraads! hoe zijt gij ter aarde nedergehouwen, gij, die de heidenen krenktet!
Finnish	Kuinka olet taivaalta pudonnut, sinä kointähti, aamuruskon poika! Kuinka olet maahan syösty, sinä kansojen kukistaja!
French	Te voilà tombé du ciel, Astre brillant, fils de l`aurore! Tu es abattu à terre, Toi, le vainqueur des nations!
German	Wie bist du vom Himmel gefallen, du schöner Morgenstern! Wie bist du zur Erde gefällt, der du die Heiden schwächtest!
Haitian Creole	Manyè di nou non, ou menm ki te klere tankou zetwal bajou a, ki jan ou fè tonbe sot nan syèl la? Ou menm ki te konn mache ap kraze nasyon yo anba pye ou, ki jan yo fè jete ou plat atè konsa?
Hungarian	Miként estél alá az égrõl fényes csillag, hajnal fia!? Levágattál a földre, a ki népeken tapostál!
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Hai raja Babel, dahulu engkau bintang pagi yang cemerlang, tapi sekarang sudah jatuh dari langit! Dahulu engkau mengalahkan bangsa-bangsa, tapi sekarang dicampakkan ke tanah.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Bagaimana engkau sudah gugur dari langit, hai bintang kejora! hai anak fajar! engkau sudah ditebang rebah ke bumi, engkau, yang penganiaya segala bangsa!
Italian	Come mai sei caduto dal cielo, Lucifero, figlio dell'aurora? Come mai sei stato steso a terra, signore di popoli?
Maori	Anana! tou takanga iho i te rangi, e Tawera, e te tama a te ata! te tapahanga iho i a koe ki raro, nau nei i tuku nga iwi ki raro!
Norwegian	Hvor er du ikke falt ned fra himmelen, du strålende stjerne, du morgenrødens sønn! Hvor er du ikke felt til jorden, du som slo ned folkeslag!
Rumanian	Cum ai cqzut din cer, Luceafqr strqlucitor, fiu al zorilor! Cum ai fost doborkt la pqmknt, tu, biruitorul neamurilor!
Russian	лБЛ ХРБМ ФЩ У ОЕВБ, ДЕООЙГБ, УЩО ЪБТЙ! ТБЪВЙМУС П ЪЕНМА, РПРЙТБЧЫЙК ОБТПДЩ.
Swedish	Huru har du icke fallit ifrån himmelen, du strålande morgonstjärna! Huru har du icke blivit fälld till jorden, du folkens förgörare!
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "weaken": weakened, weakener, weakeners, weakening, weakens. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Weaken" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Eijken, Ewigen, geikien, Meaken, seiken, weaked, weakend, weaqe, weaten, weeken, weken, welken, werken, weskin, wicken, Wilken. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "weaken" (pronounced wē"kun)
4	-ē" k u n	beacon, deacon, Pekin.
3	-k u n	awaken, bacon, beckon, blacken, bracken, broken, chicken, darken, drunken, falcon, forsaken, gascon, harken, heartbroken, housebroken, interleukin, lichen, liken, Macon, misspoken, mistaken, outspoken, overtaken, pelican, Pipkin, pumpkin, quicken, reawaken, reckon, republican, retaken, second, shaken, shrunken, sicken, silicon, slacken, spoken, stricken, sunken, taken, thicken, token, unbroken, undertaken, unshaken, unspoken, waken, woken, zircon.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-k-n-w"
	-1 letter: akene, waken.
	-2 letters: akee, anew, awee, kane, keen, knee, knew, wake, wane, weak, wean, week, ween, weka.
	-3 letters: ane, awe, awn, eke, ewe, kae, kea, ken, nae, naw, nee, new, wae, wan, wee, wen.
	-4 letters: ae, an, aw, en, ka, na, ne, we.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-k-n-w"
	+1 letter: rewaken, wakened, wakener, weakens.
	+2 letters: awakened, awakener, knapweed, neckwear, newspeak, reawaken, reawoken, rewakens, wakeners, weakened, weakener, weakness.
	+3 letters: askewness, awakeners, knapweeds, newmarket, newsbreak, newsmaker, newspeaks, reawakens, rewakened, snakeweed, wapentake, weakeners, weakening, winemaker.
	+4 letters: newmarkets, newsbreaks, newsmakers, reawakened, rewakening, snakeweeds, unawakened, wapentakes, weakliness, weaknesses, winemakers.
	+5 letters: acknowledge, askewnesses, awestricken, gawkinesses, kitchenware, reawakening, wackinesses, wakefulness, windbreaker.
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