1 weak

2 feeble

3 young

4 inferior

5 (following a decimal or fraction) slightly less than

1 weak

2 frail

1 to peel with a knife

2 to pare

3 to cut (a ball at tennis etc)

1 to cut down

2 to reduce

3 to lower

1 to exploit

2 exploitation

1 using the weak to defeat the strong (idiom); to win from a position of weakness

1 to use one's strength to bully the weak (idiom)

1 demotion to commoner (idiom)

1 to cut the feet to fit the shoes (idiom); to force sth to fit (as to a Procrustean bed)

2 impractical or inelegant solution

1 the country weakened and the people empoverished (idiom)