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weakenings

weakenings is the plural of weakening.

Meaning of weakening

Noun

weakening (countable and uncountable, plural weakenings)

  1. An instance or process of loss of strength.
    • That immortal creature had gone over the proofs with great pains — had of course taken out the stiflings — hard-plungings, lungeings, and other convulsions — and had also taken out her weakenings and damagings of her own effects.1855, Charles Dickens, Household Words
  2. (uncountable) A structural principle of mathematical logic that states that the hypotheses of any derived fact may be freely extended with additional assumptions.

Questions about weakenings

What is weakenings the plural of?
Weakenings is the plural of weakening.

Words near weakenings in the dictionary

  1. weakenesse
  2. weakenest
  3. weakeneth
  4. weakening
  5. weakening up
  6. weakenings
  7. weakens
  8. weakens up
  9. weaker
  10. weaker in the knees
  11. weaker sex

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