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Webster 1828 Edition


Weakening

WEAKENING

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ppr.
Debilitating; enfeebling; reducing the strength or vigor of any thing.

Definition 2024


weakening

weakening

English

Verb

weakening

  1. present participle of weaken

Noun

weakening (countable and uncountable, plural weakenings)

  1. An instance or process of loss of strength
  2. (uncountable, mathematics) A structural principle of mathematical logic that states that the hypotheses of any derived fact may be freely extended with additional assumptions