weakening's Usage Examples:

The characteristic feature of Italys foreign relations during this period was the weakening of the bonds of the Triple Alliance and the improved relations with France, while the ~The disease progressively weakens all muscles, notably respiratory muscles, compromising life expectancy.

With further transfer of the carbon from the graphitic to the combined state, the matrix itself grows weaker (EF); but this weakening is offset in a measure by the continuing decrease of discontinuity due to the decreasing proportion of graphite.

As another means of opposing Western influence in south-eastern Europe, Prince Lobanov inclined to the policy of protecting rather than weakening the Ottoman empire.

A quartz vein or bed of hard rock may show itself as a sharp ridge or as a well-defined bench; a stratum of soft rock or the line of a great fissure, or the weakening of the strata by an anticlinal fold, may produce a ravine or a deep valley.

I feel my body weakening - -it refuses to heal me this time, now that it's chosen its successor, as my father said it would!I believe Damian has a Hunter among his men, but the White God refuses to speak to me anymore.

was the model to which he endeavoured to conform, and he did not attempt to preserve himself from the weakening influences of priestcraft.

Eight battles had been fought before the insurrection showed signs of weakening, and it continued for six months after Razin had received his quietus.

Synonyms:

fall, transformation, loosening, downfall, withering, exhaustion, enfeeblement, attenuation, atrophy, debilitation, fading, shift, transmutation, enervation, relaxation, slackening,

Antonyms:

constructive, stay, stand still, rise, strengthening,