Loose oomph

Usage examples of weaken.

Their attachment also to the ancient royal family had been much weakened by their habits of submission to the Danish princes, and by their late election of Harold or their acquiescence in his usurpation.

I said, but with the acuity of any jungle beast, he sensed the weakening of his prey.

Bertrand, Amy noticed, with the dawning of delight, was visibly weakening.

Especially since the initial diagnosis in each case was a hereditary vascular malformation, one being a Berry aneurysm, or sacular weakening of an artery that was leaking blood, and the other a capsular angioma, same as Kathleen Sullivan had.

Omnius may yet win--not through military strength, but through the apathy weakening our forces.

For a short time the hold of athleticism was weakened, and as it weakened, the hold of literature became more firm.

Bit by bit, loosened molecule by loosened molecule, in accordance with the patient, relentless laws of chemistry, the sinew slowly dissolved, weakening the bond which held the compressed, contorted, sharpened baleen, until the slender bond broke.

I begged her mother to find somebody to take the letter to Soleure immediately, before my resolution was weakened by repentance.

Whatever sorcery the Chancellor had bound him with, it had weakened this night, and Benet was hers for a time again.

It was behind this monstrous trapezoidal gateway that the horror was building, as water builds behind a weakening dam a soft, shifting, bodiless evil, an unspeakable eruption into the land of the living from out of black abysses of space and time.

From the clatter above, he knew that the second blast, set off by Brye somewhere below, must have weakened the old castle even more than had the first explosion.

The vaunted South Florida Building Code deliberately was weakened to allow faster, cheaper work.

This significance was weakened by the introduction that same year of another and even more effective tranquillizer, chlorpromazine, which does not possess this particular two-ring combination.

Then the colors leaked away one by one, chroma weakening: purple-blue, manganese violet, discord, cobalt blue, doubt, affection, chrome green, chrome yellow, raw sienna, contemplation, alizarin crimson, irony, silver, severity, compassion, cadmium red, white.

This ravenous appetite would at last have weakened me to death, had I not made up my mind to pounce upon, and to swallow, every kind of eatables I could find, whenever I was certain of not being seen.