Skip to content

weakening

noun

  1. process of something becoming weaker
L228104 on Wikidata ↗

adjective

No English definition recorded for this entry.

L228105 on Wikidata ↗

Wiktionary

noun

  1. An instance or process of loss of strength.

    That immortal creature had gone over the proofs with great pains — had of course taken out the stiflings — hard-plungings, lungeings, and other convulsions — and had also taken out her weakenings and damagings of her own effects.

  2. A structural principle of mathematical logic that states that the hypotheses of any derived fact may be freely extended with additional assumptions.

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of weaken