Noun

• S: (n) season (a period of the year marked by special events or activities in some field) "he celebrated his 10th season with the ballet company"; "she always looked forward to the avocado season"
• S: (n) season, time of year (one of the natural periods into which the year is divided by the equinoxes and solstices or atmospheric conditions) "the regular sequence of the seasons"
• S: (n) season (a recurrent time marked by major holidays) "it was the Christmas season"

Verb

• S: (v) season, flavor, flavour (lend flavor to) "Season the chicken breast after roasting it"
• S: (v) season, harden (make fit) "This trip will season even the hardiest traveller"
• S: (v) temper, season, mollify, moderate (make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else) "she tempered her criticism"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (v) weaken (lessen the strength of) "The fever weakened his body"
• S: (v) de-energize, de-energise (deprive of energy)
• S: (v) break (weaken or destroy in spirit or body) "His resistance was broken"; "a man broken by the terrible experience of near-death"
• S: (v) devitalize, devitalise (sap of life or energy) "The recession devitalized the economy"
• S: (v) shake (undermine or cause to waver) "my faith has been shaken"; "The bad news shook her hopes"
• S: (v) depress (lessen the activity or force of) "The rising inflation depressed the economy"
• S: (v) unbrace (remove a brace or braces from)
• S: (v) etiolate (make weak by stunting the growth or development of)
• S: (v) cripple, stultify (deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless) "This measure crippled our efforts"; "Their behavior stultified the boss's hard work"
• S: (v) dilute, thin, thin out, reduce, cut (lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture) "cut bourbon"
• S: (v) rarefy, attenuate (weaken the consistency of (a chemical substance))
• S: (v) blunt (make less intense) "blunted emotions"
• S: (v) temper, season, mollify, moderate (make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else) "she tempered her criticism"
• S: (v) enfeeble, debilitate, drain (make weak) "Life in the camp drained him"
• S: (v) enervate (weaken mentally or morally)
• S: (v) dampen (reduce the amplitude (of oscillations or waves))
• S: (v) neutralize, neutralise, nullify, negate (make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of) "Her optimism neutralizes his gloom"; "This action will negate the effect of my efforts"
• S: (v) emasculate, castrate (deprive of strength or vigor) "The Senate emasculated the law"
• S: (v) wash out (deplete of strength or vitality) "The illness washed her out"
• derivationally related form
• sentence frame