All weaken antonyms
weak·en
W w 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.