'Weakening' definitions:
Definition of 'weakening'
(from WordNet)
adjective
adjective
Moderating by making pain or sorrow weaker
noun
Becoming weaker [ant: strengthening]
noun
The act of reducing the strength of something [ant: strengthening]
Definition of 'Weakening'
From: GCIDE
- Weaken \Weak"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Weakened; p. pr. & vb. n. Weakening.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. To make weak; to lessen the strength of; to deprive of strength; to debilitate; to enfeeble; to enervate; as, to weaken the body or the mind; to weaken the hands of a magistrate; to weaken the force of an objection or an argument. [1913 Webster]
- Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done. --Neh. vi. 9. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To reduce in quality, strength, or spirit; as, to weaken tea; to weaken any solution or decoction. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'weakening'
From: GCIDE
- moderating \moderating\ adj. lessening in intensity or strength. Opposite of intensifying. [Narrower terms: tempering; weakening] [WordNet 1.5]
Synonyms of 'weakening'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abatement,
- abridgment,
- alleviation,
- attenuation,
- attrition,
- bankruptcy,
- blunting,
- breakage,
- breakdown,
- collapse,
- contraction,
- crack-up,
- crippling,
- damage,
- dampening,
- damping,
- deadening,
- debilitation,
- decrease,
- decrement,
- decrescence,
- deduction,
- deflation,
- depreciation,
- depression,
- destruction,
- detriment,
- devitalization,
- devitalizing,
- dilapidation,
- dilution,
- diminishment,
- diminution,
- disablement,
- disrepair,
- draining,
- dulling,
- dying,
- dying off,
- effemination,
- encroachment,
- enervating,
- enervation,
- enfeeblement,
- enfeebling,
- evisceration,
- exhausting,
- exhaustion,
- extenuation,
- fade-out,
- fatigue,
- fatiguing,
- grueling,
- harm,
- hobbling,
- hurt,
- hurting,
- impairment,
- inanition,
- incapacitation,
- infringement,
- injury,
- inroad,
- languishment,
- lessening,
- letup,
- loss,
- lowering,
- maiming,
- mayhem,
- miniaturization,
- mischief,
- mitigation,
- mutilation,
- reduction,
- relaxation,
- ruination,
- ruinousness,
- sabotage,
- sagging,
- sapping,
- scaling down,
- scathe,
- sickening,
- simplicity,
- slackening,
- softening,
- spoiling,
- subtraction,
- thinning,
- trying