Synonyms of the word

weakening

• v. present participle of weaken.
• n. An instance or process of loss of strength.
• n. (uncountable, mathematics) A structural principle of mathematical logic that states that the hypotheses…

debilitating

• adj. Causing a loss of energy or strength.
• v. present participle of debilitate.

debilitative

• adj. Causing or relating to debilitation.

decrease

• v. (intransitive) Of a quantity, to become smaller.
• v. (transitive) To make (a quantity) smaller.
• n. An amount by which a quantity is decreased.
• n. (knitting) A reduction in the number of stitches, usually accomplished by suspending the stitch to be…

diminution

• n. A lessening, decrease or reduction.
• n. The act or process of making diminutive.
• n. (music) a compositional technique where the composer shortens the melody by shortening its note values.

enervating

• v. present participle of enervate.

enfeebling

• v. present participle of enfeeble.

moderating

• v. present participle of moderate.

reduction

• n. The act, process, or result of reducing.
• n. The amount or rate by which something is reduced, e.g. in price.
• n. (chemistry) A reaction in which electrons are gained and valence is reduced; often by the removal of oxygen…
• n. (cooking) The process of rapidly boiling a sauce to concentrate it.
• n. (mathematics) The rewriting of an expression into a simpler form.
• n. (computability theory) a transformation of one problem into another problem, such as mapping reduction…
• n. (music) An arrangement for a far smaller number of parties, e.g. a keyboard solo based on a full opera.
• n. (philosophy, phenomenology) A philosophical procedure intended to reveal the objects of consciousness…
• n. (medicine) A medical procedure to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.

shift

• n. (historical) A type of women's undergarment, a slip.
• n. A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.
• n. An act of shifting; a slight movement or change.
• n. (US) The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.
• n. Alternative spelling of Shift (“a modifier button of computer keyboards”).
• n. (computing) A bit shift.
• n. (baseball) The infield shift.
• n. (Ireland, crude slang, often with the definite article, usually uncountable) The act of sexual petting.
• n. (archaic) A contrivance, device to try when other methods fail.
• n. (archaic) A trick, an artifice.
• n. In building, the extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed…
• n. (mining) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
• v. (transitive) To change, swap.
• v. (transitive) To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
• v. (intransitive) To change position.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To change (one's clothes); also to change (someone's) underclothes.
• v. (intransitive) To change gears (in a car).
• v. (typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters and special characters.
• v. (computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters and special characters.
• v. (transitive, computing) To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare…
• v. (transitive, computing) To remove the first value from an array.
• v. (transitive) To dispose of.
• v. (intransitive) To hurry.
• v. (Ireland, vulgar, slang) To engage in sexual petting.
• v. (obsolete) To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage.
• v. To practice indirect or evasive methods.

step-down

• adj. That decreases in stages.
• adj. (of a transformer etc) That reduces a voltage.

transformation

• n. The act of transforming or the state of being transformed.
• n. A marked change in appearance or character, especially one for the better.
• n. (mathematics) The replacement of the variables in an algebraic expression by their values in terms of…
• n. (linguistics) A rule that systematically converts one syntactic form into another; a sentence derived…
• n. (genetics) The alteration of a bacterial cell caused by the transfer of DNA from another, especially if…
• n. (politics, South Africa) Ideologically driven government policy - becoming more conformant with socialist…

transmutation

• n. (obsolete) Change, alteration.
• n. The conversion of one thing into something else; transformation.
• n. (alchemy) Specifically, the supposed transformation of one element into another, especially of a base…
• n. (physics) The actual transformation of one element into another by a nuclear reaction.