weakening

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weakening

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of weaken

noun weakenings

  1. countable, uncountable An instance or process of loss of strength. That immortal creature had gone over the proofs with great pains — had of course taken out the stiflings — hard-plungings, lungeings, and other convulsions — and had also taken out her weakenings and damagings of her own effects.
  2. uncountable A structural principle of mathematical logic that states that the hypotheses of any derived fact may be freely extended with additional assumptions.

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Closest in meaning: debilitating, enervating, enfeebling, debilitative, moderating, deterioration, impairing, impairment, debility, degradation, shrinking, decay, loss, slack, weakness, waning

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noun loss of strength

Portuguêsfraquejo
Françaisaffaiblissement
DeutschAbschwächung, Schwächung
Italianoindebolimento
Ελληνικάαποδυνάμωση apodynámosi
Русскийослабле́ние oslablénije

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@misc{weakening_2026,
  title = {weakening},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/weakening},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}