Weakening Synonyms and Antonyms

To moderate or change a position or course of action as a result of pressure
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. yielding
  2. softening
  3. slackening
  4. relenting
Lessen the strength of
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. watering
  2. wilting
  3. fainting
  4. flagging
  5. trembling
  6. tottering
  7. abating
  8. declining
  9. thinning
  10. fading
  11. languishing
  12. limping
  13. halting
  14. crumbling
  15. waning
  16. failing
  17. diluting
  18. drooping
  19. relaxing
  20. softening
  21. relapsing
  22. decreasing
  23. losing
  24. cutting
  25. lessening
Antonyms:
  1. strengthening
  2. straightening
  3. reviving
To lessen or deplete the nerve, energy, or strength of
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. unnerving
  2. undoing
  3. undermining
  4. sapping
  5. enfeebling
  6. enervating
  7. devitalizing
  8. debilitating
Causing debilitation
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. debilitative
  2. enervating
  3. enfeebling
The act of reducing the strength of something
(Noun)
Antonyms:
  1. strengthening

Words Related to Weakening

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Weakening Sentence Examples

  • It was a sign that her power was weakening, just like the cracking of the sky in the underworld's dome.

  • 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!

  • The same year he supported the Triennial Bill, but opposed the new treason bill as weakening the hands of the executive.

  • Large doses also depress the nervous system, weakening the anterior horns of grey matter in the spinal cord so as ultimately to cause complete paralysis, and also causing a partial insensibility of the cutaneous nerves of touch and pain.

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