0 present participle of weaken
1 to (cause to) become less strong, powerful, determined, or effective:
In his journal, Captain Scott recorded that he and his companions were weakened by lack of food.
Is TV responsible for weakening people's moral fibre?
The latest setbacks have not weakened the government's resolve.
The fire weakened the central tower, which eventually collapsed.
This evidence weakens the case for the prosecution.
Although weakening of contexts is not present as a rule, it is obviously admissible in all these systems.
The latter is a sequent calculus that needs none of the standard structural rules of weakening, contraction or cut.
The left introduction rules plus weakening and cut are used to compute the logical consequences of a given formula.
