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# weakling

«weakling» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person or animal with little strength, who is easily…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (weaklings)

### meaning for a pupil

A weakling is a person or animal with little strength, who is easily beaten or looked down on. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/weakling/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

a weak, feeble person who cannot do hard work, often used to mock someone

### examples

- Of what use can you be, weaklings as you are! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/weakling/#x1)
- The bully called him a weakling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/weakling/#x2)
- Only a weakling gives up at the first hill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/weakling/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «weakling» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/weakling/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.