waylay, v. ambush.
way out. exit, egress.
wayward, a. [disobedient], [perverse], [froward], [willful], intractable, [headstrong].
waywiser, n. odometer, pedometer, perambulator.
weak, a. [feeble], infirm, debilitated, weakly, [fragile], [delicate], [invalid], emasculated, enervated; vulnerable, assailable, [unguarded], unprotected, exposed; [frail], pliant, [tender]; peccable, [fallible], errable, [erring], [indiscreet]; impotent, ineffectual, inefficacious, [ineffective]; [illogical], unsustained, inconclusive, [lame], [unsatisfactory]; [vacillating], [irresolute], [wavering], [unstable]; diluted, [thin], insipid, [vapid]; [slight], gauzy, [sleazy], [flimsy], [brittle], [fragile]; [unsound], unsubstantial, defective, [unsafe], [rickety].
weaken, v. debilitate, enfeeble, enervate, unnerve, emasculate, incapacitate, [sap], undermine, [unman], [exhaust], deplete; [dilute], [thin]; [invalidate]; impair, [diminish], [lower], [decline].
weakening, a. debilitant; diluent, attenuant.
weak-kneed, a. [yielding], [irresolute], pliant, [vacillating].
weak-minded, a. [feeble-minded], [foolish], [shallow], witless.
weakness, n. debility, feebleness, [infirmity], enervation, debilitation, frailness, [fragility], impotence, [invalidism]; vulnerability, accessibility, exposedness; foible, [defect], [deficiency]; peccability, errability, [fallibility]; inefficacy, ineffectiveness; [vacillation], [indecision], instability, [irresolution]; atony, asthenia.