weakening

Verb

Present participle of weaken.

Noun

(countable and uncountable, plural weakenings)

An instance or process of loss of strength
(uncountable, mathematics) A structural principle of mathematical logic that states that the hypotheses of any derived fact may be freely extended with additional assumptions

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It was a sign that her power was weakening, just like the cracking of the sky in the underworld's dome.
She felt he was weakening with the same strange sense that told her where he was.
The bond between them was weakening with him.
A man in a robe hurried down the hall as the beast battered itself against the weakening cell.
I feel my body weakening - -it refuses to heal me this time, now that it's chosen its successor, as my father said it would!

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