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Noun weakening has 2 senses

• weakening(n = noun.event) Array - becoming weaker; Array
has particulars: debilitation, enervation, enfeeblement, exhaustion, atrophy, withering, attenuation, fading, downfall, fall, loosening, relaxation, slackening
is a kind of shift, transformation, transmutation
Antonym: strengthening
Derived form verb weaken₂

• weakening(n = noun.act) Array - the act of reducing the strength of something; Array
is a kind of decrease, diminution, reduction, step-down
has particulars: wilt, wilting, dilution, etiolation
Antonym: strengthening
Derived form verb weaken₁

Adjective weakening has 2 senses

• weakening(s = adj.all) debilitative, enervating, enfeebling - causing debilitation; Array
• weakening(s = adj.all) Array - moderating by making pain or sorrow weaker; Array

THESAURUS

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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