To some the continuous use of the colon-flushing treatment is inclined to be debilitating and in rare cases complaints have been made that it dilates the colon and weakensits muscular structures.
Chewing a hard gum for a few minutes after a meal might be of advantage, but continual gum- chewing wastes and weakens the digestive elements of the saliva.
Tea and coffee,” says an authentic writer, “weakens the action of the heart.
It tends to debilitate the organs, it weakens the memory.
As we depend on others to do those things we should do ourselves, our self-reliance weakens and our powers and our control of them becomes continuously less.
This worry for the old past, this wasted energy, for that which no power in the world can restore, ever lessens the individual’s faith in himself, weakens his efforts to develop himself for the future to the perfection of his possibilities.
Worry is the traitor in our camp that dampens our powder, weakens our aim.
All heat that comes from the fire weakens and dulls me.
Mix nitrous gas and air together in a jar over water, and the nitrous gas takes away the oxygen, and then the water sucks up the mixed oxygen and nitrous gas, and that part of the air which weakens the oxygen is left behind.
The reason is, that there is something else in the air that mixes with the oxygen and weakens it.
Let her avoid the light for the first three days, and longer if she be weak, for her labour weakens her eyes exceedingly, by a harmony between the womb and them.
Let her stir as little as may be until after the fifth, sixth, or seventh day after her delivery, if she be weak; and let her talk as little as possible, for that weakens her very much.
There is nothing worse for man than uncertainty and indecision; nothing that weakens and tends more to make him useless.
Protestantism talks of faith, and its fundamental principle destroys it; it endeavors to exalt the gospel, and its own principle, by subjecting that gospel to private judgment, weakens its authority.
Every gain which organized workers make, by a conscious act of their own, weakens capitalism and is revolutionary.
Blood takes away the guilt; inherent grace weakens the filth; but the grave is the place, at the mouth of which sin and the saved must have a perfect and final parting.
There can be no doubt that every knot in a rope weakens its power of resisting a sudden jerking strain.
Soluble glass both stiffens and weakensthe stuff, depriving it both of elasticity and tenacity.
The dreadful disease from which he was suffering, or from the after effects of which he was suffering, weakens all the tissues of the body, and this weakness is aggravated by drinking wine and still more by drinking spirits.
One can see very well how this comes to pass when it is remembered that the next year’s flower is actually contained in the base of this year’s stem, therefore what weakens one weakens the other.
It weakens the current by setting up an opposing electromotive force.
It weakens them, and in order to overcome this, the coils of these poles are given a few extra turns.
When it weakens or "runs down," an addition of sulphuric acid to the outer jar and a few more crystals placed in the porous pot will put the cell in good condition.
When the cell current weakens a few tablespoonfuls of the salt introduced through the tube will restore the current to its normal value.
It weakens the current by the increased resistance which it offers to the flow, for bubbles of gas are bad conductors; 2.
After saying that the division of the legislature and the executive in Presidential governments weakens the legislative power, it may seem a contradiction to say that it also weakens the executive power.
The divisionweakens the whole aggregate force of Government--the entire imperial power; and therefore it weakens both its halves.
The presence of paper between the magnet and nails simply weakens the action.
On the other hand a hardened steel bar is difficult to magnetize, but when once magnetized retains its magnetism permanently, unless some action weakens the magnet.
That is to say, nursing weakens the mother, and the child must be taken away, a part of the time, to save her strength.
For although more blood may be sent to the right arm than to the left, as physiologists say, yet the difference is not as great at birth as it is afterward; so that education either weakens the one or strengthens the other.
All half-heartedness, all insincerity, weakens your nature, and weakness has no place either in heaven or in hell.
Nothing weakens the will so much as Fear and lack of Self-Confidence.
Sensual indulgence diminishes spiritual insight; it perverts reason, and deadens love; it enfeebles the physical man, and weakens the organs of sense, which are the avenues of the soul.
But if culture is to become a mighty transforming influence it must be wedded to religious faith, without which, while it widens the intellectual view, it weakens the will to act.
The fact is that every bit of paper you immerse and withdraw weakens the original solvent power of the bath, so in proportion as the bath liquor is smaller in quantity, by so much more speedily will its working power be lessened.
The digestive organs require time to fulfil their functions, and exercise upon a full stomach only impairs and weakens them.
Then run lime, immediately after it has been slaked, through a fine sieve, as expeditiously as possible, because exposure to the air weakens the lime.
As the moisture weakens it, you must, more or less, continue to renew the lime or ashes.
It greatly weakens the stomach, and renders them irritable and peevish.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "weakens" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
