Weakening can be categorized as a verb, an adjective and a noun.
Adjective |
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| weakening - moderating by making pain or sorrow weaker | ||
| weakening - causing debilitation | ||
Verb |
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| weaken - lessen the strength of; "The fever weakened his body" | ||
| weaken - become weaker; "The prisoner's resistance weakened after seven days" | ||
| weaken - reduce the level or intensity or size or scope of; "de-escalate a crisis" | ||
| weaken - lessen in force or effect; "soften a shock"; "break a fall" | ||
| weaken - destroy property or hinder normal operations; "The Resistance sabotaged railroad operations during the war" | ||
Noun |
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| weakening - becoming weaker | ||
| weakening - the act of reducing the strength of something |
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| 1. | verb | After the Devil began his devastating job from the ghostly "Devil's Island" through his nine main puppets (Beatles-Rolling Stones), he possessed an endless amount of other schizophrenic bad musician in the afore mentioned Island and weakening their conscience with drugs, he made them proclaimers of homosexuality, aversion to religion, destruction of family values, dissipation, mental illness, antisocialism, etc., etc., | |
| 2. | verb | Number of regulation rollbacks downgrading or weakening environmental laws in Bush's first three years in office. | |
| 3. | verb | As all kinds of communication methods are proliferating, human relationships are weakening. This is a perfect example of mistaking means for ends. | |
| 4. | verb | Tom is weakening. | |
| 5. | verb | My sense of smell is weakening. | |
| 6. | verb | With a sudden chill weakening every part of his body, Aeneas groans and, stretching both hands to the stars, cries out thus: "O thrice and four times blessed, whose lot it was to perish before the faces of their fathers under the high walls of Troy!" | |
| 7. | verb | Moscow and Beijing share a common interest in weakening U.S. global influence and are actively cooperating in that regard. | |
| 8. | verb | Tom felt himself weakening. | |
| 9. | verb | A good strategy will provide opportunities for tactical maneuvers capable of weakening the opponent's defenses. | |
| 10. | verb | In fact, it would tend to encourage more organized anti-India outfits, such as the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and outside-linked Maoists, to exploit these networks and weaken India's eastern flank. | |
| 11. | verb | Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age. | |
| 12. | verb | As expectation increases that the dollar will weaken, the foreign exchange market's reaction to US economic indicators has been fairly muted. | |
| 13. | verb | If the spectators made fun of the other team, then it would weaken their morale. | |
| 14. | verb | They watched her gradually weaken as the disease progressed. | |
| 15. | verb | The foundation of this house is beginning to weaken. | |
| 16. | noun | The Standard commented upon the fact that lawless outrages of the sort usually occurred under a Liberal Administration. They arose from the unsettling of the minds of the masses, and the consequent weakening of all authority. | |
| 17. | noun | Algeria needs to stop speculation on its weakening currency. |
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| After the Devil began his devastating job from the ghostly "Devil's Island" through his nine main puppets (Beatles-Rolling Stones), he possessed an endless amount of other schizophrenic bad musician in the afore mentioned Island and weakening their conscience with drugs, he made them proclaimers of homosexuality, aversion to religion, destruction of family values, dissipation, mental illness, antisocialism, etc., etc., |
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| Number of regulation rollbacks downgrading or weakening environmental laws in Bush's first three years in office. |
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| As all kinds of communication methods are proliferating, human relationships are weakening. This is a perfect example of mistaking means for ends. | |
| Tom is weakening. | |
| My sense of smell is weakening. | |
| With a sudden chill weakening every part of his body, Aeneas groans and, stretching both hands to the stars, cries out thus: "O thrice and four times blessed, whose lot it was to perish before the faces of their fathers under the high walls of Troy!" | |
| Moscow and Beijing share a common interest in weakening U.S. global influence and are actively cooperating in that regard. | |
| Tom felt himself weakening. | |
| A good strategy will provide opportunities for tactical maneuvers capable of weakening the opponent's defenses. | |
| In fact, it would tend to encourage more organized anti-India outfits, such as the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and outside-linked Maoists, to exploit these networks and weaken India's eastern flank. |
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| Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age. | |
| As expectation increases that the dollar will weaken, the foreign exchange market's reaction to US economic indicators has been fairly muted. | |
| If the spectators made fun of the other team, then it would weaken their morale. | |
| They watched her gradually weaken as the disease progressed. | |
| The foundation of this house is beginning to weaken. | |
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| The Standard commented upon the fact that lawless outrages of the sort usually occurred under a Liberal Administration. They arose from the unsettling of the minds of the masses, and the consequent weakening of all authority. | |
| Algeria needs to stop speculation on its weakening currency. | |