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weakeningnoun a gradual sinking and wasting away of mind or bodythe all-too-apparent weakening of our grandfather was hard on our mother debilitation, decay, decaying, declension, decline, degeneration, descent, deterioration, ebbing, enfeeblement atrophyexhaustiondrooping, flagging, limpingregression, relapse, setback comeback, improvement, rally, recovery, recuperation, rehabilitation, revitalization, snapback invigoration, strengtheningprogressrejuvenation, rejuvenescence weakeningverbpresent participle of weakento diminish the physical strength ofweeks of hardship in the desert had greatly weakened them debilitating, devitalizing, enervating, enfeebling, etiolating, prostrating, sapping, softening, tiring, wasting crippling, disabling, hamstringing, incapacitatingdepleting, depressing, exhausting, impoverishing, unmanning, washing outdamaging, harming, hurting, impairing, injuring, invaliding, laying upbreaking down, grinding (down), wearing down, wearing outparalyzing beefing (up), fortifying, strengthening energizing, invigorating, recruiting, rejuvenating, vitalizinghardening, seasoning, toughening to lose bodily strength or vigorthe bodybuilder weakened once she eased off on her workouts decaying, drooping, emaciating, fading, failing, flagging, going, lagging, languishing, sagging, sinking, wasting (away), wilting, withering breaking down, wearing outyieldingdegenerating, deteriorating, rotting, running down convalescing, rallying, rebounding, recovering, recuperatinggaining to alter (something) for the worse with the addition of foreign or lower-grade substancesweakened the juice with too much water adulterating, cutting, diluting, extending, lacing, sophisticating, thinning, watering down loadingbefouling, contaminating, corrupting, defiling, dirtying, envenoming, fouling, infecting, poisoning, polluting, soiling, spoiling, sullying, taintingcheapening, debasing, degradingmanipulating, misrepresenting, tampering (with)counterfeiting, faking, falsifying, fudgingdoctoring, spikingattenuating, moderating, qualifying, tempering enriching, fortifying, richening, strengthening fertilizing, lardingaugmenting, reinforcing(also reenforcing), supplementingdecontaminating, purifyingclarifying, cleaning, cleansing, distilling, filtering, flushing, leaching, pasteurizing, purging, refiningbettering, enhancing, improvingcompacting, concentrating, condensing |