weakening
English
Verb
weakening
Noun
weakening (countable and uncountable, plural weakenings)
- An instance or process of loss of strength.
- Charles Dickens
- 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.
- Charles Dickens
- (uncountable, mathematics) A structural principle of mathematical logic that states that the hypotheses of any derived fact may be freely extended with additional assumptions.
Translations
loss of strength
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