weaken
Example Sentences
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The researchers suggest that chronic stress, financial insecurity, and higher rates of cardiovascular risk factors may weaken the cognitive benefits that education once provided.
From Science Daily
This is especially important if you are pregnant, the person exposed is an infant, you have a weakened immune system, or you are not vaccinated.
From Los Angeles Times
A weakened dollar had also pushed investors toward alternative assets for safety in the so-called debasement trade.
Her chemotherapy and treatment for the infection left her organs severely weakened.
From BBC
"These attacks cannot weaken our resolve against terrorism."
From Barron's
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