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All weaken antonyms

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verb weaken

  • strengthen — to make stronger; give strength to.
  • fortify — to protect or strengthen against attack; surround or provide with defensive military works.
  • aid — Aid is money, equipment, or services that are provided for people, countries, or organizations who need them but cannot provide them for themselves.
  • assist — If you assist someone, you help them to do a job or task by doing part of the work for them.
  • compliment — A compliment is a polite remark that you say to someone to show that you like their appearance, appreciate their qualities, or approve of what they have done.
  • develop — When something develops, it grows or changes over a period of time and usually becomes more advanced, complete, or severe.
  • encourage — Give support, confidence, or hope to (someone).
  • enlarge — Make or become bigger or more extensive.
  • expand — explain
  • extend — Cause to cover a larger area; make longer or wider.
  • grow — to increase by natural development, as any living organism or part by assimilation of nutriment; increase in size or substance.
  • help — to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist: He planned to help me with my work. Let me help you with those packages.
  • increase — to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: to increase taxes.
  • praise — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
  • prolong — to lengthen out in time; extend the duration of; cause to continue longer: to prolong one's stay abroad.
  • raise — to move to a higher position; lift up; elevate: to raise one's hand; sleepy birds raising their heads and looking about.
  • rise — to get up from a lying, sitting, or kneeling posture; assume an upright position: She rose and walked over to greet me. With great effort he rose to his knees.
  • achieve — If you achieve a particular aim or effect, you succeed in doing it or causing it to happen, usually after a lot of effort.
  • activate — If a device or process is activated, something causes it to start working.
  • aggravate — If someone or something aggravates a situation, they make it worse.
  • agitate — If people agitate for something, they protest or take part in political activity in order to get it.
  • animate — Something that is animate has life, in contrast to things like stones and machines which do not.
  • clean — Something that is clean is free from dirt or unwanted marks.
  • energise — Alternative form of energize.
  • energize — Give vitality and enthusiasm to.
  • enhance — Intensify, increase, or further improve the quality, value, or extent of.
  • excite — Cause strong feelings of enthusiasm and eagerness in (someone).
  • free — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
  • improve — to bring into a more desirable or excellent condition: He took vitamins to improve his health.
  • incite — to stir, encourage, or urge on; stimulate or prompt to action: to incite a crowd to riot.
  • invigorate — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
  • purify — to make pure; free from anything that debases, pollutes, adulterates, or contaminates: to purify metals.
  • refresh — to provide new vigor and energy by rest, food, etc. (often used reflexively).
  • succeed — to happen or terminate according to desire; turn out successfully; have the desired result: Our efforts succeeded.
  • win — to finish first in a race, contest, or the like.
  • build up — If you build up something or if it builds up, it gradually becomes bigger, for example because more is added to it.
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