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weaken

[wee-kuhn] / ˈwi kən /


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Falling oil revenue has dented Iran’s foreign-currency earnings, on which the country depends to pay for imports and support its drastically weakened currency, the rial.

From The Wall Street Journal

But, said Frey, it wouldn’t weaken Minneapolitans’ resolve to defend their city.

From The Wall Street Journal

In Germany, whose trillion-euro defense-and-infrastructure spending package is expected to support growth, taxes are already among the highest in the developed world and raising them further could weaken growth prospects.

From The Wall Street Journal

When the winds are strong, they stay in place, however when the winds weaken, the vortex loops further south and cold air plunges toward the US.

From BBC

It helped repair weakened signaling between neurons and restored associative memory, one of the earliest cognitive abilities affected by Alzheimer's.

From Science Daily