wæcan

From Proto-West Germanic *waikwijan, from Proto-Germanic *waikwijaną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈwæː.kɑn/

wǣcan

1. to weaken, afflict, oppress
   • Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church

     Æfter ðisum ġebede, hē ābād on ðām leġere āne fēawa dagas, mid fefore ġewǣht, þurh wacolon ġebedum, on flōre liċġende, bestrēowod mid axum, on stīðre hǣran, upāhafenum ēagum and handum tō heofenum, and ne ġeswāc his ġebeda ōðþæt hē sāwlode.

     After this prayer, he remained in sickness for a few days, weakened by fever, in watchful prayer, lying on the floor, bestrewn with ashes, on stiff sackcloth, with eyes and hands turned up toward heaven, and he did not stop his prayers until he passed away.

• wāc
• wīcan

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “wǣcan”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.