Meanings
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of weaken
plural weakenings
- countableuncountableAn 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.
1855, Charles Dickens, Household Words - uncountablemathematicsA structural principle of mathematical logic that states that the hypotheses of any derived fact may be freely extended with additional assumptions.
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivecausing debilitation
adjectivemoderating by making pain or sorrow weaker
nounthe act of reducing the strength of something
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Danish svækkelse
- svækkelseloss of strength
Dutch verzwakking
- verzwakkingloss of strength
Finnish heikkeneminen
- heikkeneminenloss of strength
French affaiblissement
- affaiblissementloss of strength
German Abschwächung, Schwächung
- Abschwächungloss of strength
- Schwächungloss of strength
Greek αποδυνάμωση
- αποδυνάμωση (apodynámosi)loss of strength
Irish lagú
- lagúloss of strength
Italian indebolimento
- indebolimentoloss of strength
Norwegian Bokmål svekkelse
- svekkelseloss of strength
Polish osłabienie
- osłabienieloss of strength
Portuguese fraquejo
- fraquejoloss of strength
Russian ослабле́ние
- ослабле́ние (oslablénije)loss of strength
Cite this entry
weakening. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/weakening
“weakening.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/weakening. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “weakening,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/weakening.
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