Difference between Weaken and Diminish

WEAKEN vs DIMINISH: VERB

To become weak or weaker; to lose strength, spirit, or determination; to become less positive or resolute.

To reduce in quality, strength, or spirit.
To make weak; to lessen the strength of; to deprive of strength; to debilitate; to enfeeble; to enervate.

To make smaller in any manner; to reduce in bulk or amount; to lessen; -- opposed to augment or increase.
To lessen the authority or dignity of; to put down; to degrade; to abase; to weaken.
To make smaller by a half step; to make (an interval) less than minor.
To take away; to subtract.
One whose upper diameter is less than the lower.
A scale of gradation used in finding the different points for drawing the spiral curve of the volute.
A board cut with a concave edge, for fixing the entasis and curvature of a shaft.
A stile which is narrower in one part than in another, as in many glazed doors.

To make weak or weaker; lesson or reduce the strength, power, ability, influence, or quality of: as, to weaken the body or the mind; to weaken a solution or infusion by dilution; to weaken the force of an argument.
To become weak or weaker: as, he weakens from day to day.
(transitive; intransitive verb) To make or become weak or weaker.

To lower in power, importance, or estimation; degrade; belittle; detract from.
To take away; subtract: with from, and applied to the object removed.
In music, to lessen by a semitone, as an interval.
To lessen; become or appear less or smaller; dwindle: as, the prospect of success is diminishing by delay.
Synonyms Dwindle, Contract, etc. (see decrease); to shrink, subside, abate, ebb, fall off.
To lessen; make or seem to make less or smaller by any means; reduce: opposed to increase and augment: as, to diminish a number by subtraction; to diminish the revenue by reducing the customs.
To taper, as a column.

Undercut, Worsen, Diminish, Erode, De escalate, Step down, Countermine, Damp, Break, Counteract, Sabotage, Subvert, Soften, Dampen, Undermine

Wane, Impair, Hamper, Undercut, Hinder, Detract, Dampen, Dilute, Undermine, Weaken, Erode, Fall, Decrease, Belittle, Lessen

Hamper, Hinder, Cripple, Undercut, Worsen, Diminish, Erode, Countermine, Damp, Break, Counteract, Subvert, Soften, Dampen, Undermine

Impede, Impair, Hamper, Undercut, Hinder, Detract, Dampen, Dilute, Undermine, Weaken, Erode, Fall, Decrease, Belittle, Lessen

There are traumas in life that weaken us.
Stretching the truth will only weaken your case.
Muscles tend to shorten and weaken with age.
It can even weaken the entire immune system.
Virtually all knots weaken line in various degrees.
All of that can weaken your lash lift.
Farm laws will weaken mandi system: Sharad Pawar.
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Gaonic authority and caliphal authority were, the ga on implied, bound up with each other: weaken one and you weaken the other.
To weaken one is to weaken the other.

UK domestic law or diminish rights of individuals.
It is to obey body and diminish spirit.
To diminish or destruct in a slow fashion.
We expect this concentration to diminish over time.
As all the time speeds can diminish depending.
To diminish that, change your cabin air filter.
Over time, this source of moisture will diminish.
You love them and these outward appearances do NOT diminish your child and they do NOT diminish your love or commitment for your child!
Passage of time may diminish complicity with prior evil acts, though it does not diminish the evil nature of the original act.
They do not diminish the obligations of any employer or diminish workplace safety.