The patch decreases the tension on the weakened abdominal wall, reducing the risk that a hernia will recur.

Finally the beams stopped, and all was quiet, save for quiet creaking noises from the weakened walls.

Because the natural gas is under such great pressure, more than 900 pounds per square inch, he said, the weakened wall of the pipeline gave way.

There was an ominous creaking and grinding along the top of the hill as the weakened wall began to sway.

He threw himself to the floor, the heat of the beam sear- ing across his back and blasting into the weakened wall.

He fell toward the weakened wall she'd pushed down in her hurry to get inside.

Stones toppled out of the weakened wall; then a whole section crashed down.

But now, even the light-rifles could not be used unless those firing them wanted to chance the weakened outer walls of the structure.

It was Bob who suggested that they move back into the shaft to get away from weakened walls near the opening.

An autopsy revealed a ruptured aneurysm, a sac formed by swelling in a weakened wall of an artery.