weakening
present participle ofweaken
单词 | weakening |
释义 | weakening present participle ofweaken weaken verb[IorT] uk/ˈwiː.kən/us/ˈwiː.kən/C1 to (causeto)becomelessstrong,powerful,determined, oreffective: You couldseethepoordogweakeningdailyas thediseasespreadthroughitsbody. Thebillwouldseriouslyweakenenvironmentalprotections. Weknowthatprolongedexposuretovibrationcan weakenaircraftcomponents. She's weakening -askher some morequestionsandseeif sheconfesses.
Becoming and making less strong
Examplesofweakeningweakening In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Althoughweakeningof contexts is not present as a rule, it is obviously admissible in all these systems. From theCambridge English Corpus The latter is a sequent calculus that needs none of the standard structural rules ofweakening, contraction or cut. From theCambridge English Corpus The left introduction rules plusweakeningand cut are used to compute the logical consequences of a given formula. From theCambridge English Corpus However, this comes at the cost ofweakeningthe ability of sunspot models to explain fluctuations along some dimensions. From theCambridge English Corpus But they disagree with neoliberals in that they oppose anyweakeningof national sovereignty, even if it is in the cause of economic integration. From theCambridge English Corpus However, globalization reduces the capacity of the state to extract rents from society by increasing competition andweakeningthe effectiveness of economic policies. From theCambridge English Corpus Elimination of is a form ofweakeningthat is a meta-rule of the system. From theCambridge English Corpus Along the way, we gain detailed insights into the changes that proofs undergo during cut elimination in the presence ofweakeningand contraction. From theCambridge English Corpus However, the irrelevance of cannot be fully ascribed toweakening. From theCambridge English Corpus The usual structural rules are unified in a single rule allowing us to do a finite number of exchanges, weakenings and products of hypotheses. From theCambridge English Corpus This is in the context of theweakeningof the nation state as a socially protective and regulatory force. From theCambridge English Corpus As mentioned above, type subsumption allowsweakeningof latent effects on function types. From theCambridge English Corpus Then we derive the typing rules of the catch and throw operators: they correspond respectively to right contraction andweakeningrules of classical natural deduction. From theCambridge English Corpus What we see, then, is a progressiveweakeningof the force of oppositional salience, with a concomitant strengthening of tense. From theCambridge English Corpus Owing to the progressiveweakeningof the structure, these modulation effects become less pronounced and the vorticity contours become similar to the intermittency contours. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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