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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
moderating \moderating\ adjective lessening in intensity or strength. Opposite of {intensifying}. [Narrower terms: {tempering}; {weakening}] [WordNet 1.5]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Weaken \Weak"en\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Weakened}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Weakening}.]
1. To make weak; to lessen the strength of; to deprive of strength; to debilitate; to enfeeble; to enervate; as, to weaken the body or the mind; to weaken the hands of a magistrate; to weaken the force of an objection or an argument.
Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done. --Neh. vi. 9.
2. To reduce in quality, strength, or spirit; as, to weaken tea; to weaken any solution or decoction.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
weakening
adjective
1: causing debilitation [syn: {debilitative}, {enervating}, {enfeebling}]
2: moderating by making pain or sorrow weaker
noun
1: becoming weaker [ant: {strengthening}]
2: the act of reducing the strength of something [ant: {strengthening}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
91 Moby Thesaurus words for "weakening": abatement, abridgment, alleviation, attenuation, attrition, bankruptcy, blunting, breakage, breakdown, collapse, contraction, crack-up, crippling, damage, dampening, damping, deadening, debilitation, decrease, decrement, decrescence, deduction, deflation, depreciation, depression, destruction, detriment, devitalization, devitalizing, dilapidation, dilution, diminishment, diminution, disablement, disrepair, draining, dulling, dying, dying off, effemination, encroachment, enervating, enervation, enfeeblement, enfeebling, evisceration, exhausting, exhaustion, extenuation, fade-out, fatigue, fatiguing, grueling, harm, hobbling, hurt, hurting, impairment, inanition, incapacitation, infringement, injury, inroad, languishment, lessening, letup, loss, lowering, maiming, mayhem, miniaturization, mischief, mitigation, mutilation, reduction, relaxation, ruination, ruinousness, sabotage, sagging, sapping, scaling down, scathe, sickening, simplicity, slackening, softening, spoiling, subtraction, thinning, trying
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