What are some opposite words for strengthen?

Antonyms for strengthen
ˈstrɛŋk θən, ˈstrɛŋ-, ˈstrɛn-strength·en

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  1. strengthenverb

    Antonyms:
    atrophy

  2. strengthenverb

    Antonyms:
    atrophy

  3. strengthenverb

    Antonyms:
    atrophy

  4. strengthenverb

    Antonyms:
    atrophy

  5. strengthenverb

    Antonyms:
    atrophy

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  1. strengthen

    Confirm (Latin con, together, and firmus, firm) is to add firmness or give stability to. Both confirm and corroborate presuppose something already existing to which the confirmation or corroboration is added. Testimony is corroborated by concurrent testimony or by circumstances; confirmed by established facts. That which is thoroughly proved is said to be established; so is that which is official and has adequate power behind it; as, the established government; the established church. The continents are fixed. A treaty is ratified; an appointment confirmed. An act is sanctioned by any person or authority that passes upon it approvingly. A statement is substantiated; a report confirmed; a controversy settled; the decision of a lower court sustained by a higher. Just government should be upheld. The beneficent results of Christianity confirm our faith in it as a divine revelation.

    Antonyms:
    abrogate, annul, cancel, destroy, overthrow, shake, shatter, unsettle, upset, weaken

    Synonyms:
    assure, confirm, corroborate, establish, fix, prove, ratify, sanction, settle, substantiate, sustain, uphold

    Preposition:
    Confirm a statement by testimony; confirm a person in a belief.

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  1. strengthen

    Antonyms:
    weaken, disestablish, shake, loosen, sap, undermine, debilitate, diminish

    Synonyms:
    confirm, establish, fix, corroborate, secure, invigorate, fortify, increase

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  1. strengthen, beef up, fortifyverb

    make strong or stronger

    "This exercise will strengthen your upper body"; "strengthen the relations between the two countries"

    Antonyms:
    weaken

    Synonyms:
    tone, tone up, fortify, gird, build up, fort, spike, arm, beef up, lace

  2. strengthenverb

    gain strength

    "His body strengthened"

    Antonyms:
    weaken

    Synonyms:
    tone up, fortify, tone, beef up

  3. tone, tone up, strengthenverb

    give a healthy elasticity to

    "Let's tone our muscles"

    Antonyms:
    weaken

    Synonyms:
    intone, tone, tone up, inflect, fortify, modulate, beef up, chant

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  1. strengthenverb

    Synonyms:
    invigorate, brace, nerve, steel, fortify, harden, intensify, heighten, confirm, corroborate, sustain

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  1. athrophy

    Submitted by anonymous on September 6, 2020  

How to use strengthen in a sentence?

  1. Jacinda Ardern:

    On 15 March our history changed forever. Now, our laws will too. We are announcing action today on behalf of all New Zealanders to strengthen our gun laws and make our country a safer place, all semi-automatic weapons used during the terrorist attack on Friday 15 March will be banned.

  2. Andrew Cuomo:

    This bill gives Congress the ability to fulfill its constitutional responsibilities, strengthen our democratic system and ensure that no one is above the law.

  3. Alan Dershowitz:

    I think President Donald Trump's President Donald Trump and President Donald Trump knows President Donald Trump can't win this election without the alt right -- without getting people to vote for him, whose views President Donald Trump disapproves of. But President Donald Trump hasn't had the courage to really stand up to the alt right in the way President Donald Trump should, there is a kind of fascist mentality in the world today. I don't worry that President Donald Trump will try to govern that way. I do worry that President Donald Trump will embolden and strengthen some of the fascist elements in our society.

  4. Michael Fallon:

    We have to continue to strengthen NATO.

  5. Seneca:

    Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

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#7738strengthen
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#9423upset
#17827undermine
#21475diminish
#25411weaken
#27471overthrow
#29528loosen
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#37901shatter
#80071annul
#83175abrogate
#161066unsettle
#278457debilitate

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