lose strength

Polystyrene can be chemically recycled using heat, but repeated treatments degrade the material, causing it to lose strength and flexibility.

The other major hurdle is finding a way to jump start heart tissue regeneration without causing the tissue to lose strength.

But now, when they die down or lose strength — which they occasionally do, especially in the late summer to fall — the marine heat wave moves in.

Though experts had anticipated the storm would lose strength as it encountered colder waters closer to California, they do not expect it to diminish into a tropical depression or fragmented storm cells as it typically would.

After hitting the coast, most typhoons tend to lose strength while moving into the mountainous interior of southeastern China, although they sometimes linger over areas, dropping heavy rain.