weakening
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Weaken \Weak"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Weakened}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Weakening}.]
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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.
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Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it
be not done. --Neh. vi. 9.
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2. To reduce in quality, strength, or spirit; as, to weaken
tea; to weaken any solution or decoction.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
91 Moby Thesaurus words for "weakening":
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
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