Possible Clues:

• Guillotined, missing leg and weakening
• The weakening by the addition of water
• Old Inuit set adrift, weakening
• Turns up it's not about one university getting papers that could be watered down
• Some weakening of the party spirit?
• Wading bird
• Weakening of concentration, until I do otherwise
• Weakening, stuttering, 'I do, until...'
• Watering down
• Weakening