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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



... her weakening, but the Benediction stiffened her resolve, and when the final Amen sounded, she turned blindly to the man beside her, and said, hardly above ...
— Miss Mink's Soldier and Other Stories • Alice Hegan Rice
... had known no mother, combined with the progressive weakening of my father's health and peace of mind during the previous year or so, may probably have influenced my attitude in all such matters, may have given a partly feminine quality to my affection for my father. I know it seemed to me unfitting that he should ever take any part in ...
— The Record of Nicholas Freydon - An Autobiography • A. J. (Alec John) Dawson
... He coughed blood to his lips, at which Roy laid him back and stood up. So there was no mistake, after all, and he had arrived too late. This was the Kid's revenge. This was how he struck. Lacking courage to face a man's level eyes, he possessed the foulness to prey upon a woman. Roy felt a weakening physical sickness sweep over him till his eye fell upon a sodden garment which Helen had removed from her brother's shoulders and replaced with a dry one. He snatched it from the floor and in a sudden fury felt it come apart in ...
— The Spoilers • Rex Beach
... the first time in his life that Cowperwood had ever shown the least sign of weakening or despair. He had felt all along as though there were nothing to the Greek theory of being pursued by the furies. Now, however, there seemed an untoward fate which was pursuing him. It looked that way. Still, fate or no fate, he did not propose to be daunted. ...
— The Financier • Theodore Dreiser
... the whole matter into a mere calculation of interests. He was accustomed to say that one of the chief merits of Christianity was that it taught that right and wrong were as far apart as Heaven and Hell, and that no greater calamity can befall a nation than a weakening of the righteous hatred ...
— Historical and Political Essays • William Edward Hartpole Lecky


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