The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word SAPS which also is the latest solution we found used in LA Times in 2023.
Weakens crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SAPS | 70 % | 4 |
| EBBS | 5 % | 4 |
| FADES | 5 % | 5 |
| GELDS | 4 % | 5 |
| SAGS | 3 % | 4 |
| ABATES | 3 % | 6 |
| ATTENUATES | 3 % | 10 |
| DILUTES | 1 % | 7 |
| BLUNTS | 1 % | 6 |
| DEADENS | 1 % | 7 |
| IMPAIRS | 1 % | 7 |
| ERODES | 1 % | 6 |
Why may SAPS be the right solution?
The answer "SAPS" is the right solution for the clue "Weakens" because "saps" means to gradually weaken or drain the strength or energy of something or someone.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Weakens
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- de-escalate
- soften
- subvert
- undermine
- break
- sabotage
- step down
- counteract
- dampen
- damp
- countermine
- declines
Crossword Answer definitions
SAPS noun- The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
- The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
- Any juice.
- Vitality.
- A naive person; a simpleton
- To drain, suck or absorb from (tree, etc.).
- To exhaust the vitality of.
- A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
- To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
- A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.
- To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
- To pierce with saps.
- To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
- To gradually weaken.
- To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result SAPS
More clues leading to the result EBBS
More clues leading to the result FADES
- Drifts slowly away
- Loses color
- Loses luster
- Drops out of contention
- Is affected by sunlight, perhaps
- Loses stamina
- Disappears gradually
- Weakens
- Vanishes into thin air
- Loses brightness
More clues leading to the result GELDS
- Fixes once and for all?
- Neuters
- Emasculates
- Does a stableman's job
- Weakens
- Subdues
- Neuters, as a horse
- Fixes
- Fixes, in a way
- Neuters a colt
More clues leading to the result SAGS
- Droops
- Loses firmness
- Momentary drop in voltage
- Shows wear
- Becomes concave
- Goes limp
- Falls off
- Bends under weight
- Looks sway-backed
- Bows
More clues leading to the result ABATES
More clues leading to the result ATTENUATES
More clues leading to the result DILUTES
- Waters down
- Thins out
- Makes weaker.
- Weakens by admixture.
- Attenuates.
- Thins down.
- Waters down.
- Thins
- Weakens
- Adds water to
More clues leading to the result BLUNTS
- Short, thick smokes
- Dulls
- Numbs
- Weakens
- Dulls the edge of
- Dulls.
- Makes dull.
- Makes less edgy
- Big joints
- Deadens or dulls