weakening en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) 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.
1855, Charles Dickens, Household Words:
- (uncountable) A structural principle of mathematical logic that states that the hypotheses of any derived fact may be freely extended with additional assumptions.
Forms
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| weakenings | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Translations (14)
ga lagú (loss of strength) · ru ослабле́ние (loss of strength) · fr affaiblissement (loss of strength) · fi heikkeneminen (loss of strength) · it indebolimento (loss of strength) · da svækkelse (loss of strength) · de Schwächung (loss of strength) · pt fraquejo (loss of strength) · de Abschwächung (loss of strength) · el αποδυνάμωση (loss of strength) · pl osłabienie (loss of strength) · nb svekkelse (loss of strength) · hy թուլացում (loss of strength) · nl verzwakking (loss of strength)