Similar words: awakening, weaken, darkening, sickening, weaker, broken in, weakling, weaning. Meaning: ['wɪːkənɪŋ] n. 1. becoming weaker 2. the act of reducing the strength of something. adj. 1. causing debilitation 2. moderating by making pain or sorrow weaker.
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31. Other factors have contributed to the weakening of community spirit.
32. The other clawed into it, mercilessly pecking while its prey squawked with weakening jabs of its beak.
33. Further revaluations remain a distinct possibility, despite a slight weakening of Sterling.
34. The prime minister has expressed his intention to quit, but had not done so for fear of weakening the coalition.
35. Exports are lower, household spending is weakening and businesses show signs of losing faith in their investment plans.
36. Though his eyes were weakening by the moment, his gaze was still more acute than that of the blossoming ape.
37. If income inequalities were gradually disappearing this would be strong evidence that class divisions were weakening.
38. This uses up energy, weakening the plant and reducing its chances of producing viable fruit.
39. People are looking for a weakening economy and supply is rising.
40. The sperm present will surround it, battering against its surface and each one weakening the outside layer.
41. The survey by Butler and Stokes detected a weakening of the class alignment among younger voters in the 1960s.
42. Nor does the setting up of separate households necessarily imply a weakening of social and caring relationships.
43. This apparent weakening of trade-union domination of the party machine was, however, somewhat illusory.
44. This intervention has the effect both of undermining managerial autonomy and of weakening the coherence of political control by blurring objectives.
45. He must already have begun to be aware that his dependency on alcohol was weakening his creative drive. Sentencedict.com
46. They are concerned it will set a precedent, weakening airline unions' ability to use the strike threat.
47. Birthday shows us that weakening is inevitable, but not always fatal.
48. Where Clinton speaks with one voice, they speak with several, weakening their philosophical case.
49. The stockpile gains come as weakening demand for new housing and automobiles cuts consumption of copper just as mine production is increasing.
50. Centuries-old varnish had yellowed and darkened, discolouring the original palette and weakening the composition's depth.
51. The effect was devastating, seriously weakening Mrs Thatcher's hold on the premiership and making a leadership contest virtually inevitable.
52. A weakening of the yen against the dollar diminishes returns to investors who change their proceeds into stronger currencies.
53. Labour would disrupt industrial peace by weakening the power of management and the courts.
54. Scientists interviewed Thursday expressed concern about any weakening of the concrete beneath the Waterford, Conn., plant.
55. Ministers said today, though, there could be no question of either weakening the Maastricht conditions or delaying the euro.
56. Any weakening of the stratospheric inversion would affect convective processes and atmospheric circulation in general, thereby affecting weather and climate.
57. The weakening position can be traced back to the Hatfield crash last October, in which four people died.
58. Snake venoms have different effects, some simply weakening or disorienting, others paralysing or killing the prey.
59. The army will brook no weakening of its power.
60. The budget crisis also spotlighted a weakening American economy.
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