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weakening 音标拼音: [w'ikənɪŋ] 衰减; 虚弱的; 削弱; 消振 衰减; 虚弱的; 削弱; 消振 weakening adj 1: causing debilitation [ synonym: { debilitative}, { enervating}, { enfeebling}, { weakening}] 2: moderating by making pain or sorrow weaker n 1: becoming weaker [ ant: { strengthening}] 2: the act of reducing the strength of something [ ant: { strengthening}] moderating \ moderating\ adj. lessening in intensity or strength. Opposite of { intensifying}. [ Narrower terms: { tempering}; { weakening}] [ WordNet 1. 5]
Weaken \ Weak" en\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Weakened}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Weakening}.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. To make weak; to lessen the strength of; to deprive of strength; to debilitate; to enfeeble; to enervate; as, to weaken the body or the mind; to weaken the hands of a magistrate; to weaken the force of an objection or an argument. [ 1913 Webster] Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done. -- Neh. vi. 9. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To reduce in quality, strength, or spirit; as, to weaken tea; to weaken any solution or decoction. [ 1913 Webster] 91 Moby Thesaurus words for " weakening": abatement, abridgment, alleviation, attenuation, attrition, bankruptcy, blunting, breakage, breakdown, collapse, contraction, crack- up, crippling, damage, dampening, damping, deadening, debilitation, decrease, decrement, decrescence, deduction, deflation, depreciation, depression, destruction, detriment, devitalization, devitalizing, dilapidation, dilution, diminishment, diminution, disablement, disrepair, draining, dulling, dying, dying off, effemination, encroachment, enervating, enervation, enfeeblement, enfeebling, evisceration, exhausting, exhaustion, extenuation, fade- out, fatigue, fatiguing, grueling, harm, hobbling, hurt, hurting, impairment, inanition, incapacitation, infringement, injury, inroad, languishment, lessening, letup, loss, lowering, maiming, mayhem, miniaturization, mischief, mitigation, mutilation, reduction, relaxation, ruination, ruinousness, sabotage, sagging, sapping, scaling down, scathe, sickening, simplicity, slackening, softening, spoiling, subtraction, thinning, trying
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