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Weaken vs Weakening - What's the difference?

weaken | weakening |

As verbs the difference between weaken and weakening

is that weaken is to make weaker while weakening is .

As a noun weakening is

an instance or process of loss of strength.

weaken

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To make weaker.
  • To become weaker.

    • weakening

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (wikipedia weakening)
  • An instance or process of loss of strength
  • (uncountable, mathematics) A structural principle of mathematical logic that states that the hypotheses of any derived fact may be freely extended with additional assumptions