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This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments.
Jacques Delors

Meaning of "weakening" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF WEAKENING

weakening  [ˈwiːkənɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WEAKENING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Weakening is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES WEAKENING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Monotonicity of entailment

Monotonicity of entailment is a property of many logical systems that states that the hypotheses of any derived fact may be freely extended with additional assumptions. In sequent calculi this property can be captured by an inference rule called weakening, or sometimes thinning, and in such systems one may say that entailment is monotone if and only if the rule is admissible. Logical systems with this property are occasionally called monotonic logics in order to differentiate them from non-monotonic logics.

Definition of weakening in the English dictionary

The first definition of weakening in the dictionary is loss of physical strength. Other definition of weakening is reduction in value. Weakening is also lessening.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH WEAKENING


air-conditioning
ˈɛəkənˌdɪʃ ənɪŋ
awakening
əˈweɪkənɪŋ
beckoning
ˈbekənɪŋ
conditioning
kənˈdɪʃənɪŋ
gardening
ˈɡɑːdənɪŋ
governing
ˈɡʌvənɪŋ
happening
ˈhæpənɪŋ
opening
ˈəʊpənɪŋ
poisoning
ˈpɔɪzənɪŋ
positioning
pəˈzɪʃənɪŋ
questioning
ˈkwɛstʃənɪŋ
reasoning
ˈriːzənɪŋ
reawakening
ˌriːəˈweɪkənɪŋ
reckoning
ˈrɛkənɪŋ
sickening
ˈsɪkənɪŋ
slackening
ˈslækənɪŋ
strengthening
ˈstreŋθənɪŋ
thickening
ˈθɪkənɪŋ
threatening
ˈθrɛtənɪŋ
unawakening
ˌʌnəˈweɪkənɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WEAKENING

weak verb
weak-kneed
weak-kneedly
weak-kneedness
weak-minded
weak-mindedly
weak-mindedness
weak-willed
weaken
weakener
weaker sex
weakest link
weakfish
weakhearted
weakish
weakishly
weakishness
weaklier
weakliest
weakliness

WORDS THAT END LIKE WEAKENING

beginning
christening
deepening
easy listening
enlightening
evening
frightening
good evening
grand opening
hardening
intervening
life-threatening
lightening
listening
screening
sharpening
shortening
tightening
whitening
widening
worsening

Synonyms and antonyms of weakening in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «WEAKENING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «weakening» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of weakening

Translation of «weakening» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WEAKENING

Find out the translation of weakening to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of weakening from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «weakening» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

弱化
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

debilitamiento
570 millions of speakers

English

weakening
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कमजोर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ضعف
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ослабление
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

enfraquecimento
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বলক্ষয়কর
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

affaiblissement
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Lemah
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Schwächung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

弱体化
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

약화
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Weakening
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

suy yếu
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பலவீனமாகின்ற
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कमकुवत करणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

zayıflama
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

indebolimento
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

osłabienie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

послаблення
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

slăbire
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

εξασθένιση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

verswakking
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

försvagning
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

svekkelse
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of weakening

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WEAKENING»

The term «weakening» is quite widely used and occupies the 31.186 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WEAKENING» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «weakening» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «weakening» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about weakening

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10 QUOTES WITH «WEAKENING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word weakening.
1
William J. H. Boetcker
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
2
Aristide Briand
This means that the search for a formula of European cooperation in connection with the League of Nations, far from weakening the authority of this latter must and can only tend to strengthen it, for it is closely connected with its aims.
3
Jean Charest
Recognizing Quebec as being different, recognizing our history, recognizing our identity, has never meant a weakening of Quebec and has never been a threat to national unity.
4
William Collins
I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more.
5
Jacques Delors
This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments.
6
Anita Elberse
One problem with relying on existing concepts is that it could stifle innovation, weakening the film sector over time.
7
Lady Gregory
The time the moon is going back, the blood that is in a person does be weakening, but when the moon is strong, the blood that moves strong in the same way. And it to be at the full, it drags the wits along with it, the same as it drags the tide.
8
Jim Jeffords
Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father.
9
Jamie Johnson
Contrary to common assumption, many of the wealthiest Americans aren't worried about the weakening economy at all. They are actually excited about it.
10
Robert D. Kaplan
Wherever you have weakening states and turmoil, you will have a fertile petri dish for terrorism.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WEAKENING»

Discover the use of weakening in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to weakening and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Weakening Philosophy: Essays in Honour of Gianni Vattimo
Moving away from Jacques Derrida's deconstructionism and Paul Ricoeur's hermeneutics, and building on his experiences as a politician, Vattimo asks if it is still possible to speak of moral imperatives, individual rights, and political ...
Santiago Zabala, 2006
2
Christianity, Truth, and Weakening Faith: A Dialogue
Christianity, Truth, and Weakening Faith advances just such a dialogue, featuring the collaboration of two major philosophers known for their progressive approach to this issue.
Gianni Vattimo, René Girard, Pierpaolo Antonello, 2013
3
The Nature and Tectonic Significance of Fault Zone Weakening
This book brings together papers by an international group of Earth scientists to discuss a broad range of topics centred upon the controls of fault weakening and the role of such faults during lithosphere deformation.
Robert E. Holdsworth, 2001
4
The Attack on the White Male: - and the Weakening of America -
" -Norman Kantor, retired businessman and philanthropist "When Stephen L. DeFelice talks, I listen; when he writes, I read.
Stephen L. DeFelice, 2010
5
Temperature gradient weakening in snow
Temperature. Gradient. Weakening. in. Snow. R. A. Sommerfeld1. When snow of densities lower than about 250 kg/m3 metamorphoses under a temperature gradient, large crystals form, and the snow becomes weaker. These crystals form at ...
R. A. Sommerfeld, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station (Fort Collins, Colo.), 1985
6
Propulsion Systems for Hybrid Vehicles
efficiency in the PRM is the fact that field weakening current is only 1 4% of maximum inverter current at no load versus 86% in the case of a buried magnet IPM. This is significant and the reason for the high efficiency noted in Figure 5.22 for ...
John M. Miller, 2004
7
Weakening of an elastic solid by a rectangular array of cracks
An infinite elastic solid containing a doubly-periodic rectangular array of slit-like cracks is considered. The solid is subjected to a uniform stress resulting in a state of plane strain.
W. R. Delameter, Stanford University. Dept. of Applied Mechanics, G. Herrmann, 1974
8
The Role of Lexical Frequency and Phonetic Context in the ...
Richard J. File-Muriel. 4 Conclusions, discussion, and future research The goal of this study was to investigate the role of lexical frequency in the lenition process and determine whether and to what extent lexical frequency interacts with ...
Richard J. File-Muriel, 2007
9
Strength Relations in Phonology
Why. final. obstruent. devoicing. is. weakening. John. Harris. 1. Introduction There is a long-standing tradition in phonology of regarding the widespread process of final obstruent devoicing as a form of fortition, hardening (Verhärtung) or ...
Kuniya Nasukawa, Phillip Backley, 2009
10
Popular Spanish Film Under Franco: Comedy and the Weakening ...
This book constitutes the first in-depth cultural analysis of a period generally held to be the golden age of film production in Spain.
Steven Marsh, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WEAKENING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term weakening is used in the context of the following news items.
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Parliament logjam is agonising and weakening the process of …
Referring to the current scenario when BJP has a majority on its own and the opposition is a "weakened lot", he said,"It is weakening the whole process of ... «Times of India, Aug 15»
2
Intel agencies: U.S. strikes not weakening ISIS
The Associated Press cited conclusions from the CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency and others that the situation with the Islamic State is at a stalemate. "We've ... «Washington Examiner, Jul 15»
3
Central Bank says concern with drought causes baht weakening
BANGKOK: — The baht currency has weakened faster by two percent this week against US dollars than the previous week due to external and internal factors, ... «ThaiVisa News, Jul 15»
4
Italy economic recovery is weakening, statistics office says
ROME Italy's fledgling economic recovery from three years of recession is already losing steam, national statistics bureau ISTAT said on Friday. In its monthly ... «Reuters, Jul 15»
5
Serzh Sargsyan expects from Prosecutor's Office to be …
You must demonstrate an uncompromising attitude towards manifestations of corruption weakening our society, and it is impossible to implement the necessary ... «Armenpress.am, Jul 15»
6
Impact of weakening ringgit
THE weakening of the ringgit or rather the rise of the US dollar against the rest of the world's currencies has brought mixed fortunes to the local economy. «The Star Online, Jun 15»
7
Weakening of ringgit not unusual, says analyst
KUALA LUMPUR: The weakening of the ringgit to an almost nine-year low in the early session Monday is not unusual, in the context of the strengthening of the ... «The Star Online, Jun 15»
8
Rush Limbaugh: All Immigration Today Is Weakening the US
Immigration — both illegal and visa-sanctioned — is weakening the United States, conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh says. "America's a great country, and ... «Newsmax, May 15»
9
Government proses weakening the Health and Safety law
“The Government's suggestion that the new workplace health and safety laws will be weakened is very disappointing”, says Hazel Armstrong health and safety ... «Scoop.co.nz, May 15»
10
Kenyan shilling slips, traders see further weakening
"The trend still remains intact for a weakening shilling," said one trader, who asked not to be named. Chris Muiga at the National Bank of Kenya said the shilling ... «The Standard Digital News, May 15»

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