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Weakening   /wˈikənɪŋ/   Listen
Weakening

noun
1.
Becoming weaker.
2.
The act of reducing the strength of something.
adjective
1.
Causing debilitation.  Synonyms: debilitative, enervating, enfeebling.
2.
Moderating by making pain or sorrow weaker.


Weaken

verb
(past & past part. weakened; pres. part. weakening)
1.
Lessen the strength of.
2.
Become weaker.
3.
Destroy property or hinder normal operations.  Synonyms: counteract, countermine, sabotage, subvert, undermine.
4.
Reduce the level or intensity or size or scope of.  Synonyms: de-escalate, step down.
5.
Lessen in force or effect.  Synonyms: break, damp, dampen, soften.  "Break a fall"



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"Weakening" Quotes from Famous Books



... affection between them stronger. Thyrza believed that Mrs. Ormonde's opposition to the marriage was weakening; when at length, as the time drew to an end, menial work was put aside and she was encouraged to spend her days in improving her mind, it seemed to her a declaration that she was found fit for a higher standing than that to which she was born. The joy which ...
— Thyrza • George Gissing
... means of firing the Southern heart, that this moneyed power, born of Protection, "works upon the passion of the States it has been able to delude by computations of their physical strength and their naval superiority; and by boasting of an ability to use the weakening circumstance of negro slavery to coerce the defrauded and discontented States into submission." And they declared as fundamental truths upon which they rested that "The Federal is not a National Government; it is a ...
— The Great Conspiracy, Complete • John Alexander Logan
... baptism. We teach our people that it is sinful, if not perilous, to neglect the baptism of their children. The Lutheran Church attaches more importance to this divine ordinance than any other Protestant denomination. While all around us there has been a weakening and yielding on this point; while the spirit of our age and country scorns the idea of a child receiving divine Grace through baptism; while it has become offensive to the popular ear to speak of baptismal Grace, our Church, wherever she has been ...
— The Way of Salvation in the Lutheran Church • G. H. Gerberding
... disappearance of the ancien regime was simply the weakening of the traditions which served as its foundations. When after repeated criticism it could find no more defenders, the ancien regime crumbled like a building whose ...
— The Psychology of Revolution • Gustave le Bon
... hand, if not arrested, besides the risk of weakening the patient, we have to dread the much more serious complication of the admission of blood into the wound. And this is very serious in a patient whose respiration has already been much impeded, whose lungs are probably ...
— A Manual of the Operations of Surgery - For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners • Joseph Bell


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