Definition for Weakening:

• One who, or that which, weakens.

Synonyms for Weakening:

• v.

  •disabling (verb)
  • Abrogating,
  • incapacitating,
  • Hamstringing,
  • Neutralizing,
  • tampering,
  • disabling,
  • Botching,
  • Cramping,
  • Paralyzing,
  • Prostrating,
  • crippling,
  • Benumbing,
  • Scotching,
  • anesthetizing,
  • deadening,
  • Hobbling,
  • screwing up,
  • Dulling,
  • Handicapping,
  • Laming,
  • enfeebling,
  • Vitiating,
  • stupefying,
  • invalidating,
  • undermining,
  • stunning,
  • Impairing,
  • Hampering,
  • hindering,
  • disarming,
  • Sapping.
  •enfeebling (verb)
  • debilitating,
  • softening.

• Other synonyms:

  •Other relevant words:
  • deterioration,
  • degrade,
  • destruction,
  • declining,
  • dilapidation,
  • sickening,
  • abbreviate,
  • fall off,
  • hurt,
  • lowering,
  • lessen,
  • defuse,
  • exhaustion,
  • sagging,
  • draining,
  • Languishing,
  • bankruptcy,
  • debility,
  • decrement,
  • disablement,
  • dip,
  • lassitude,
  • declination,
  • Emasculating,
  • deflation,
  • abating,
  • wasting,
  • deduction,
  • fall,
  • inroad,
  • descent,
  • enervate,
  • moderation,
  • extinguish,
  • deduct,
  • harm,
  • diminish,
  • palliate,
  • bate,
  • mischief,
  • wear out,
  • hurting,
  • adulterating,
  • Incapacitation,
  • sag,
  • weaken,
  • assuage,
  • imperfection,
  • Derailing,
  • give out,
  • curtail,
  • enervating,
  • disrepair,
  • damage,
  • alleviation,
  • commute,
  • evisceration,
  • mitigation,
  • deafening,
  • Damping,
  • subdue,
  • exhausting,
  • tempering,
  • thinning,
  • extenuating,
  • injury,
  • running down,
  • atrophy,
  • degrading,
  • tiredness,
  • subtraction,
  • chasten,
  • ebbing,
  • gruelling,
  • loosen,
  • Maiming,
  • modify,
  • encroachment,
  • twilight,
  • destroy,
  • reduction,
  • Fatiguing,
  • disintegration,
  • tapering off,
  • fading,
  • dying,
  • wilting,
  • subsidence,
  • failing,
  • weakness,
  • slump,
  • Delaying,
  • grueling,
  • Marring,
  • failure,
  • contraction,
  • decrescence,
  • Languishment,
  • Subverting,
  • ruination,
  • dilution,
  • winding down,
  • drop,
  • devitalization,
  • relaxation,
  • extenuation,
  • Diluting,
  • degeneration,
  • die out,
  • faltering,
  • break,
  • reduce,
  • depress,
  • abatement,
  • loosening,
  • letup,
  • easing,
  • Degenerating,
  • dying off,
  • relief,
  • diminishing,
  • debasing,
  • dampen,
  • sabotage,
  • slacken,
  • deteriorate,
  • unnerving,
  • fail,
  • breakage,
  • decreasing,
  • ruining,
  • droop,
  • Collapsing,
  • subsiding,
  • remission,
  • reducing,
  • Effemination,
  • breakdown,
  • mayhem,
  • collapse,
  • Decaying,
  • fade out,
  • Relenting,
  • vitiation,
  • slide,
  • abate,
  • depression,
  • Ruinousness,
  • inanition,
  • sinkage,
  • scaling down,
  • Blunting,
  • wane,
  • depressing,
  • debilitation,
  • flaw,
  • fatigue,
  • sinking,
  • impairment,
  • Enervative,
  • scathe,
  • undermine,
  • Subduing,
  • worsening,
  • simplicity,
  • Attenuating,
  • relaxing,
  • decay,
  • impair,
  • disappearing,
  • deteriorating,
  • damaging,
  • let-up,
  • trying,
  • crack-up,
  • consumption,
  • detriment,
  • debilitative,
  • decrease,
  • detract,
  • soften,
  • depreciation,
  • decadence,
  • eliminate,
  • infirmity,
  • allay,
  • minimizing,
  • wear,
  • deaden,
  • dispel,
  • dampening,
  • downturn,
  • miniaturization,
  • abridgment,
  • loss,
  • moderating,
  • spoiling,
  • mutilation,
  • infringement,
  • downfall,
  • Diminishment,
  • mitigate.

Paraphrases for Weakening:

• Equivalence

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    slackening.

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    diminution.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    slackening, loosening, relaxation.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    deterioration, impairment, easing, depreciation, relaxing, vulnerability, devaluation, reduction, worsening, degradation, depression.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    dampening, deteriorating, minimizing, Impairing, Stagnating, eroding, affecting, impeding, downplaying, dwindling, decreasing, damaging, depreciating, Hampering, moderating, debilitating, constraining, Curtailing, receding, Harming, hindering, wavering, Obstructing, interfering, faltering, shaking, unwavering, inhibiting, hurting, Diluting, retreating, less, restricting, declining, reduced, reducing, Attaining, abating, confining, losing, Impacting, withering, unswerving, being, wondering, stalling, releasing, striving, falling, halting, slashing, limiting, yielding, letting, lowering, lessening, slowing, relaxing, worsening.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    weakness, undermining, downgrading, softening, weak, erosion, lowering, lessening, decline, dilution, slowing, weaker, slowdown, decrease, attenuation, downturn, contraction, curtailment.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    waning, diminishing, destabilizing, undercutting, Alleviating, compromising, dropping, undermining, softening, easing, loosening.

Antonyms for Weakening:

• n.

  • act
    strengthening.
  • Other antonyms:
    comeback, invigoration, improvement, recuperation, intensifying, progress, revitalization, rally, rejuvenation, snapback, recovery, rehabilitation, Rejuvenescence, invigorating.

Hypernym for Weakening:

• n.

  • act
    wilt, Etiolation, wilting, dilution.
  • event
    enervation, atrophy, attenuation, exhaustion, loosening, withering, relaxation, fall, enfeeblement, debilitation, slackening, downfall, fading.

Hyponym for Weakening:

• n.

  • act
    diminution, step-down, reduction, decrease.
  • event
    transformation, shift, transmutation.