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What is the adjective for weakened?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb weaken which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

weak
  1. Lacking in force (usually strength) or ability.
  2. Unable to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain.
  3. Unable to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion, etc.; easily impressed, moved, or overcome; accessible; vulnerable.
  4. Dilute, lacking in taste or potency.
  5. (grammar) Displaying a particular kind of inflection, including:
    1. (Germanic languages, of verbs) Regular in inflection, lacking vowel changes and having a past tense with -d- or -t-.
    2. (Germanic languages, of nouns) Showing less distinct grammatical endings.
    3. (Germanic languages, of adjectives) Definite in meaning, often used with a definite article or similar word.
  6. (chemistry) That does not ionize completely into anions and cations in a solution.
  7. (physics) One of the four fundamental forces associated with nuclear decay.
  8. (slang) Bad or uncool.
  9. (mathematics) Having a narrow range of logical consequences; narrowly applicable. (Often contrasted with a strong statement which implies it.)
  10. Resulting from, or indicating, lack of judgment, discernment, or firmness; unwise; hence, foolish.
  11. Not having power to convince; not supported by force of reason or truth; unsustained.
  12. Lacking in vigour or expression.
  13. Not prevalent or effective, or not felt to be prevalent; not potent; feeble.
  14. (stock exchange) Tending towards lower prices.
  15. (photography) Lacking contrast.
  16. Synonyms:
      17. frail, feeble, helpless, puny, delicate, emasculated, enfeebled, weakly, scrawny, slight, wimpy, effete, etiolated, fragile, strengthless, weedy, wimpish, debile, forceless, rickety, sapless, spindly, weakling, debilitated, enervated, weakened, infirm, sapped, faint, prostrate, wasted, unsubstantial, asthenic, languid, prostrated, soft, tender, softened, low, down-and-out, sickly, lame, ailing, powerless, exhausted, impotent, decrepit, drained, incapacitated, shaky … more
  17. Examples:
      18. “He was determined to prove he was not a weak man by signing up as a contestant on Survivor.”
      “The castle walls are weak and need to be fortified immediately.”
      “These heavy bottles are making me anxious that my weak shopping bag will break apart at any second.”
weakly
  1. Frail, sickly or of a delicate constitution; weak.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. frail, weak, feeble, debilitated, sickly, ailing, delicate, enfeebled, decrepit, failing, faltering, invalid, faint, puny, fragile, unsound, unsubstantial, anile, unstable, lame, anaemic, anemic, flimsy, ill, insecure, insubstantial, infirm, poorly, unwell, doddering, in poor health, wimpish, effete, aged, slight, weakened, wasted, wimpy, tender, unhealthy, indisposed, incapacitated, strengthless, low, doddery, valetudinarian, enervated, languid, sapped, old … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Frederic Chopin was a weakly child from the first.”
weaksome
  1. Characterised or marked by weakness; feeble
weakling
  1. weak, either physically, morally or mentally
  2. Synonyms:
      3. weak, spineless, soft, effete, wimpish, wimpy, frail, weakened, nerveless, characterless, wet, invertebrate, wishy-washy, limp-wristed, weak-kneed, namby-pamby, milk-and-water, feeble, cowardly, spiritless, pathetic, pusillanimous, craven, timid, ineffectual, timorous, weak-willed, ineffective, chicken, gutless, enervated, fearful, lily-livered, yellow, insipid, chicken-hearted, languid, yellow-bellied, irresolute, sissy, weedy, boneless, faint-hearted, recreant, candy-assed, slight, delicate, enfeebled, impotent, inept … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “He showed his weakling side when he easily succumbed to peer pressure and made the wrong decision.”
weake
  1. Obsolete spelling of weak
  2. Examples:
      3. “They vexed, tormented, and cruciated the weake consciences of men.”
weakened
  1. Reduced, made less strong.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. weak, frail, feeble, debilitated, enfeebled, infirm, enervated, delicate, sapped, slight, wasted, effete, prostrate, languid, faint, prostrated, asthenic, wimpy, wimpish, unsubstantial, tender, soft, softened, low, declining, deteriorated, faded, fragile, down-and-out, exhausted, drained, fatigued, spent, worn out, weary, tired, beat, wearied, worn, worn-out, limp, shot, tired out, bushed, dead, pooped, run-down, bleary, rundown, dog-tired … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “His bones were weakened from a lack of calcium.”
      “After putting in a hard day's work, she was too weakened to do anything besides lay on the couch.”
      “However, antibiotics are helpful if the person develops pneumonia or some other secondary condition while weakened with the flu.”
weakish
  1. Somewhat weak
  2. Examples:
      3. “It seems quite happy to have a weakish dollar, so that will have an impact on the markets.”
      “It was the 1930 series against a weakish MCC team captained by Harold Gilligan.”
      “Other countries have survived limp, weakish buffoons in power and have recovered in the next regime.”
weaker
  1. comparative form of weak: more weak
  2. (logic) Said of one proposition with respect to another one: that the latter entails the former, but the former does not entail the latter.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. frailer, feebler, punier, weaklier, scrawnier, slighter, wimpier, fragiler, weedier, ricketier, spindlier, more helpless, more delicate, more effete, more etiolated, more strengthless, more wimpish, more debile, more sapless, more vulnerable, more susceptible, more defenceless, more defenseless, more powerless, more unsafe, more assailable, more unguarded, more unprotected, more accessible, more woundable, brittler, crumblier, flimsier, tenderer, more breakable, more decrepit, more destructible, more frangible, more unstable, more friable, more shattery, sicker, infirmer, sicklier, unhealthier, badder … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “A surge in gold prices and a broadly weaker U.S. dollar had supported the rand's recent rally.”
      “What then is the conclusion which in true a fortiori fashion is supposed to follow resoundingly from the weaker premise?”
      “The outer layer of the wall of the large intestine is weaker in some areas than in others.”
weakest
  1. superlative form of weak: most weak Most weak.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. frailest, feeblest, puniest, weakliest, scrawniest, slightest, wimpiest, fragilest, weediest, ricketiest, spindliest, most helpless, most delicate, most effete, most etiolated, most strengthless, most wimpish, most debile, most sapless, most vulnerable, most susceptible, most defenceless, most defenseless, most powerless, most unsafe, most assailable, most unguarded, most unprotected, most accessible, most woundable, brittlest, crumbliest, flimsiest, tenderest, most breakable, most decrepit, most destructible, most frangible, most unstable, most friable, most shattery, sickest, infirmest, sickliest, unhealthiest, baddest … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Many contractors we work with believe that their marketing and sales efforts are the weakest link in their organizations.”
      “A facility's electrical system is only as reliable as the weakest link in the system.”
      “The weakest point in the set, as so often with gigs from the era, is the start.”
weaklier
  1. comparative form of weakly: more weakly
  2. Synonyms:
      3. frailer, weaker, feebler, sicklier, fainter, punier, fragiler, lamer, flimsier, more ailing, more delicate, more decrepit, more invalid, more unsound, more unsubstantial, more anile, more unstable, more anaemic, more anemic, more ill, more insecure, more insubstantial, softer, smaller, scrawnier, slighter, sluggisher, spindlier, unhealthier, weedier, wearier, shakier, more strengthless, more helpless, more exhausted, more effete, more wasted, more weakened, more tired, more languorous, more enervated, more drained, more debile, more asthenic … more
weakliest
  1. superlative form of weakly: most weakly
  2. Synonyms:
      3. frailest, weakest, feeblest, sickliest, faintest, puniest, fragilest, lamest, flimsiest, most ailing, most delicate, most decrepit, most invalid, most unsound, most unsubstantial, most anile, most unstable, most anaemic, most anemic, most ill, most insecure, most insubstantial, softest, smallest, scrawniest, slightest, sluggishest, spindliest, unhealthiest, weediest, weariest, shakiest, most strengthless, most helpless, most exhausted, most effete, most wasted, most weakened, most tired, most languorous, most enervated, most drained, most debile, most asthenic … more
weakening
  1. present participle of weaken
  2. Synonyms:
      3. debilitating, exhausting, enervating, tiring, enfeebling, sapping, prostrating, crippling, devitalizing, incapacitating, etiolating, softening, wasting, depleting, impoverishing, wearing out, sapping the strength of, sapping your strength, wearying, draining, fatiguing, disabling, frazzling, doing in, pooping, knocking out, knackering, overtiring, wearing down, undermining, indisposing, tiring out, shattering, paralysing, paralyzing, washing out, tuckering, making feeble, taking it out of, torpefying, taxing, wearing, impairing, breaking, immobilizing, making weak, laying low, vitiating, overtaxing, immobilising … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Living creatively with the reality of his weakening body was a choice.”
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