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• adj.

  • falling (adjective)

  • more slipping,
  • more sliding,
  • most ebbing,
  • most sliding,
  • most settling,
  • de creasing,
  • more weakening,
  • de scending,
  • more ebbing,
  • sub siding,
  • more toppling,
  • more diminishing,
  • most diminishing,
  • de-creasing,
  • more collapsing,
  • most toppling,
  • most decreasing,
  • more abating,
  • more decreasing,
  • most collapsing,
  • most weakening,
  • more declining,
  • more subsiding,
  • most abating,
  • most slipping,
  • more settling,
  • de-scending,
  • most subsiding,
  • sub-siding,
  • most declining.

  • flagging (adjective)

  • more slacking,
  • most slacking.

  • lessening (adjective)

  • more sagging,
  • more wasting,
  • more slumping,
  • most slackening,
  • most lightening,
  • more dropping,
  • more depreciating,
  • more dwindling,
  • most moderating,
  • most quieting,
  • more slackening,
  • most sagging,
  • most depreciating,
  • more quieting,
  • most narrowing,
  • most dwindling,
  • more slowing,
  • most plummeting,
  • most slumping,
  • more moderating,
  • more lightening,
  • more plummeting,
  • most slowing,
  • most wasting,
  • more narrowing,
  • most dropping.

  • Other relevant words: (adjective)

  • flagging,
  • dying down,
  • lessening,
  • shriveling up,
  • losing momentum,
  • falling,
  • slipping.

• n.

  • act (noun)

  • weakening.

  • attenuation (noun)

  • de-vitalization,
  • fadings,
  • de vitalizations,
  • de-vitalizations,
  • de vitalization.

  • attrition (noun)

  • dis-integration,
  • weakenings,
  • dis integrations,
  • dis-integrations,
  • dis integration.

  • debilitating (noun)

  • debilitating.

  • debilitative (noun)

  • debilitative.

  • decline (noun)

  • de-generation,
  • re-lapses,
  • de-clines,
  • de-scents,
  • re cessions,
  • dis-solution,
  • de-volution,
  • re cession,
  • de-cline,
  • on skids,
  • de volutions,
  • re lapse,
  • de scents,
  • on the skid,
  • de-generations,
  • de-cays,
  • de-scent,
  • de generations,
  • de generation,
  • on skid,
  • dis solutions,
  • re-lapse,
  • re-cessions,
  • de volution,
  • re lapses,
  • de cays,
  • de-volutions,
  • falling offs,
  • worsenings,
  • dis-solutions,
  • re-cession,
  • devolutions,
  • de scent,
  • dwindlings,
  • de-cay,
  • de clines,
  • de cline,
  • de cay,
  • dis solution.

  • devaluation (noun)

  • de valuations,
  • write downs,
  • de valuation,
  • de-valuations,
  • de-valuing,
  • write-downs,
  • writedowns,
  • de-valuation,
  • de valuing,
  • writedown.

  • diminution (noun)

  • de creases,
  • de-creases,
  • de-crease,
  • de crease.

  • ebb (noun)

  • low waters,
  • petering outs,
  • outward flows,
  • retrocessions,
  • re fluxes,
  • backflows,
  • re-treats,
  • fading aways,
  • re treats,
  • retro-fluxes,
  • retro cessions,
  • re-flux,
  • retro fluxes,
  • retro cession,
  • retro-cessions,
  • retro-cession,
  • retro flux,
  • retro-flux,
  • re-fluxes,
  • going outs,
  • flaggings,
  • refluxes,
  • retrofluxes,
  • re-treat,
  • refluences,
  • re flux.

  • enervating (noun)

  • enervating.

  • moderating (noun)

  • moderating.

  • Other relevant words: (noun)

  • backflow,
  • enfeeblement,
  • ebb,
  • croppers,
  • fading away,
  • write down,
  • attenuation,
  • write-down,
  • rubbing,
  • markdown,
  • decline,
  • waning,
  • devaluation,
  • grindings,
  • retrenchments,
  • cropper,
  • pratfalls,
  • on the skids,
  • sinkings,
  • retrenchment,
  • slackening,
  • failings,
  • low water,
  • pratfall,
  • relapse,
  • Refluence,
  • outward flow,
  • low tide,
  • thinnings,
  • devaluings,
  • ebbings,
  • Retrocession,
  • attrition,
  • reflux,
  • enervation,
  • devolution,
  • petering out,
  • retroflux,
  • diminution,
  • rubbings.

• v.

  • disabling (verb)

  • Abrogating,
  • incapacitating,
  • Hamstringing,
  • Neutralizing,
  • tampering,
  • disabling,
  • Botching,
  • Cramping,
  • Paralyzing,
  • Prostrating,
  • crippling,
  • Benumbing,
  • Scotching,
  • anesthetizing,
  • deadening,
  • Hobbling,
  • screwing up,
  • Dulling,
  • Handicapping,
  • Laming,
  • enfeebling,
  • Vitiating,
  • stupefying,
  • invalidating,
  • undermining,
  • stunning,
  • Impairing,
  • Hampering,
  • hindering,
  • disarming,
  • Sapping.

  • enfeebling (verb)

  • softening.

• Other synonyms:

  • famished

  • starving.

  • Other relevant words (noun):

  • bankruptcy,
  • extenuation,
  • debasing,
  • dip,
  • abbreviate,
  • infirmity,
  • declination,
  • fall,
  • disrepair,
  • devitalization,
  • droop,
  • faltering,
  • miniaturization,
  • tempering,
  • deteriorate,
  • debilitation,
  • depress,
  • flaw,
  • collapse,
  • descent,
  • winding down,
  • injury,
  • let-up,
  • slacken,
  • contraction,
  • chasten,
  • debility,
  • twilight,
  • deteriorating,
  • slide,
  • breakage,
  • depreciation,
  • decrescence,
  • sinkage,
  • abating,
  • depression,
  • Diminishment,
  • downturn,
  • Degenerating,
  • Marring,
  • assuage,
  • evisceration,
  • simplicity,
  • detract,
  • encroachment,
  • Damping,
  • give out,
  • easing,
  • weakness,
  • failing,
  • loosen,
  • defuse,
  • decreasing,
  • crack-up,
  • inroad,
  • destroy,
  • wasting,
  • break,
  • die out,
  • scathe,
  • reducing,
  • grueling,
  • deduction,
  • disablement,
  • hurt,
  • impairment,
  • imperfection,
  • wear,
  • deterioration,
  • lowering,
  • spoiling,
  • declining,
  • ebbing,
  • sag,
  • Diluting,
  • letup,
  • ruining,
  • Delaying,
  • inanition,
  • abate,
  • Subduing,
  • decay,
  • soften,
  • fail,
  • deafening,
  • deduct,
  • alleviation,
  • scaling down,
  • fall off,
  • infringement,
  • dampen,
  • atrophy,
  • subsidence,
  • destruction,
  • relief,
  • eliminate,
  • damage,
  • bate,
  • running down,
  • sinking,
  • draining,
  • Collapsing,
  • drop,
  • Enervative,
  • relaxation,
  • subdue,
  • trying,
  • ruination,
  • decadence,
  • Relenting,
  • mutilation,
  • degrade,
  • subtraction,
  • mayhem,
  • dying off,
  • sabotage,
  • Attenuating,
  • enervate,
  • wear out,
  • deaden,
  • commute,
  • extenuating,
  • harm,
  • Effemination,
  • extinguish,
  • Emasculating,
  • exhaustion,
  • adulterating,
  • Ruinousness,
  • reduction,
  • wilting,
  • remission,
  • dampening,
  • minimizing,
  • Subverting,
  • decrement,
  • exhausting,
  • disintegration,
  • weaken,
  • degeneration,
  • Blunting,
  • Fatiguing,
  • vitiation,
  • tiredness,
  • unnerving,
  • tapering off,
  • dilapidation,
  • wane,
  • fading,
  • detriment,
  • degrading,
  • abridgment,
  • fade out,
  • lessen,
  • dilution,
  • relaxing,
  • moderation,
  • loss,
  • impair,
  • thinning,
  • sagging,
  • breakdown,
  • mischief,
  • gruelling,
  • dying,
  • worsening,
  • Decaying,
  • disappearing,
  • diminish,
  • reduce,
  • diminishing,
  • Maiming,
  • downfall,
  • Derailing,
  • sickening,
  • palliate,
  • Languishing,
  • slump,
  • consumption,
  • loosening,
  • abatement,
  • Languishment,
  • deflation,
  • hurting,
  • mitigation,
  • depressing,
  • lassitude,
  • curtail,
  • damaging,
  • modify,
  • failure,
  • fatigue,
  • undermine,
  • mitigate,
  • dispel,
  • allay,
  • Incapacitation,
  • decrease,
  • subsiding.

How to use «Weakening» in context?

One of the more common medical terms for «weakening» is tottering. This term is used to describe when a person’s balance is compromised, making them more vulnerable to falling. When speaking of a person’s health, being weakened typically means that the person is losing strength, energy, and stamina on a sustained basis. Generally speaking, when a person starts to lose strength, energy, and stamina, it is usually a sign that their health is declining.

Paraphrases for Weakening:

• Equivalence

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    slackening.

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    diminution.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    loosening, relaxation, slackening.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    degradation, depreciation, depression, deterioration, devaluation, easing, impairment, reduction, relaxing, vulnerability, worsening.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    abating, affecting, being, confining, constraining, damaging, dampening, debilitating, declining, decreasing, depreciating, deteriorating, dwindling, eroding, falling, faltering, halting, hindering, hurting, impeding, inhibiting, interfering, less, lessening, letting, limiting, losing, lowering, moderating, receding, reduced, reducing, relaxing, releasing, restricting, retreating, shaking, slashing, slowing, stalling, striving, unswerving, unwavering, wavering, withering, wondering, worsening, yielding, Attaining, Diluting, Hampering, Harming, Impacting, Impairing, Obstructing, Curtailing, Stagnating, minimizing, downplaying.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    attenuation, contraction, curtailment, decline, decrease, dilution, downturn, erosion, lessening, lowering, slowdown, slowing, softening, weak, weakness, downgrading, undermining, weaker.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    compromising, diminishing, dropping, easing, loosening, softening, waning, Alleviating, undermining, destabilizing, undercutting.

Hypernym for Weakening:

• n.

  • act
    wilt, Etiolation, wilting, dilution.
  • event
    enervation, atrophy, attenuation, exhaustion, loosening, withering, relaxation, fall, enfeeblement, debilitation, slackening, downfall, fading.

Hyponym for Weakening:

• n.

  • act
    diminution, step-down, reduction, decrease.
  • event
    transformation, shift, transmutation.

- ослабляющий
- слабеющий

weakening sound — фон. исчезающий звук 

Мои примеры

My interviews with teenagers revealed a weakening of religious bonds. 

В ходе бесед с подростками я выявил ослабление религиозных уз.

The country still refuses to capitulate despite its weakening army and dwindling resources. 

Страна по-прежнему отказывается капитулировать, несмотря на ослабление армии и истощение ресурсов.

A spider’s web can stretch considerably without weakening.  

The markets (=all the stock markets in the world) are better prepared for a weakening economy than they were ten years ago.  

Для того чтобы добавить вариант перевода, кликните по иконке ☰, напротив примера.

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Definition of weakening

• becoming weaker; moderating by making pain or sorrow weaker; the act of reducing the strength of something

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