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  1. List of paraphrases for "weakens":

    undermines, weaken, erodes, undercuts, dilutes, diminishes

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  1. Asuncion Mejias:

    Covid is a very proinflammatory virus, so it really weakens your immune response, and when you haven’t recovered yet, and you get a second hit, in this case, RSV or rhinovirus, you develop a more severe disease.

  2. Ashraf Ghani:

    When people get phone calls and say' abandon', that weakens morale. Morale is a fundamental issue and( to improve it is) one of our main tasks.

  3. Joseph Addison:

    Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent reliefs we receive from it and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life.

  4. Matthew Tocheri:

    For the few stragglers that are still hanging onto (to the idea) that this is a pathological modern human, it certainly weakens their argument yet again.

  5. Ray Mabus:

    It's a bigoted policy. It has not one shred of evidence behind it, in fact, all the evidence goes the other way. It goes against the basic American notion that it should be about what you can do and not who you are. ... To do this to patriots who are willing to serve -- not only willing, but eager to serve, who have raised their hands and said send me -- weakens our democracy and seriously weakens our military.

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