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All weakening synonyms

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adjective weakening

  • flagging — becoming smaller or weaker; dwindling.
  • fading — to lose brightness or vividness of color.
  • waning — to decrease in strength, intensity, etc.: Daylight waned, and night came on. Her enthusiasm for the cause is waning.
  • failing — Slang. an embarrassing or humorous mistake, humiliating situation, etc., that is subject to ridicule and given an exaggerated importance: Their app update is a massive fail. the condition or quality resulting from having failed in this way: His online post is full of fail. a person who fails in this way.
  • abating — to reduce in amount, degree, intensity, etc.; lessen; diminish: to abate a tax; to abate one's enthusiasm.
  • dwindling — to become smaller and smaller; shrink; waste away: His vast fortune has dwindled away.
  • wilting — to become limp and drooping, as a fading flower; wither.
  • diminishing — Make or become less.
  • slumping — to drop or fall heavily; collapse: Suddenly she slumped to the floor.
  • declining — deteriorating gradually, as in quality, health, or character
  • drooping — to sag, sink, bend, or hang down, as from weakness, exhaustion, or lack of support.
  • ebbing — the flowing back of the tide as the water returns to the sea (opposed to flood, flow).
  • tiring — Archaic. to dress (the head or hair), especially with a headdress.
  • palling — a cloth, often of velvet, for spreading over a coffin, bier, or tomb.
  • sagging — to sink or bend downward by weight or pressure, especially in the middle: The roof sags.
  • languishing — becoming languid, in any way.

noun weakening

  • deterioration — the act or process of deteriorating.
  • decline — If something declines, it becomes less in quantity, importance, or strength.
  • damage — To damage an object means to break it, spoil it physically, or stop it from working properly.
  • destabilization — to make unstable; rid of stabilizing attributes: conflicts that tend to destabilize world peace.
  • destabilisation — Alternative spelling of destabilization.
  • undermining — to injure or destroy by insidious activity or imperceptible stages, sometimes tending toward a sudden dramatic effect.
  • decay — When something such as a dead body, a dead plant, or a tooth decays, it is gradually destroyed by a natural process.
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