weakening
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weakening
verb
- present participle and gerund of weaken
noun weakenings
- 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.
- 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
| Português | fraquejo |
|---|---|
| Français | affaiblissement |
| Deutsch | Abschwächung, Schwächung |
| Italiano | indebolimento |
| Ελληνικά | αποδυνάμωση apodynámosi |
| Русский | ослабле́ние oslablénije |
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