weakening

Speech parts

1. weakening - Noun

2. weakening - Verb

4. weakening - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Weaken

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

reduction decline decrease decay impairment deterioration fading attenuation attrition lessening softening diminution abatement weakness enervating
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Antonyms

strengthening living growth health remaining fighting
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Hypernyms

reduction shift decrease diminution step-down

Hyponyms

fall relaxation downfall exhaustion fading attenuation

Phrases with the word

genetic weakening weakening of the genetic pool weakening of ozone layer thyroid-weakening weakening of the genetic stock weakening health

Examples

This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments. Jacques Delors

Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing ones. Swami Vivekananda

Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy. Tryon Edwards

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul. André Maurois

What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process. Barney Frank

Every day that we allow ourselves to take things for granted, every day that we allow some little physical infirmity or worldly worry to come between us and our obstinate, indignant, defiant exultation, we are weakening our genius for life. John Cowper Powys

Close letter words and terms

weakener weakenes weakenesse weakening health weakening of ozone layer weakening of the genetic pool