Attenuate
Definition of Attenuate
At`ten´u`ate v. t. | 1. | To make thin or slender, as by mechanical or chemical action upon inanimate objects, or by the effects of starvation, disease, etc., upon living bodies. | | 2. | To make thin or less consistent; to render less viscid or dense; to rarefy. Specifically: To subtilize, as the humors of the body, or to break them into finer parts. | | 3. | To lessen the amount, force, or value of; to make less complex; to weaken. | v. i. | 1. | To become thin, slender, or fine; to grow less; to lessen. | a. | 1. | Made thin or slender. | | 2. | Made thin or less viscid; rarefied. |
Related Words
Sanforize, abate, adulterate, alleviate, attenuated, baptize, bate, blow off, blunt, cast forth, clear away, constrict, consume, contract, cramp, cripple, cut, damp, dampen, deaden, debilitate, deflate, dematerialize, devitalize, dilute, disable, disembody, dispel, dissipate, dissolve, drive away, dry up, dull, ease, emacerate, emaciate, enervate, enfeeble, etherealize, evaporate, eviscerate, exhaust, expand, extenuate, gruel, irrigate, lay low, lessen, macerate, mitigate, parch, preshrink, rare, rarefied, rarefy, rattle, reduce, reedy, remit, sap, sear, shake, shake up, shrink, shrivel, slacken, slender, slight, slim, soften up, spiritualize, subtile, subtilize, subtle, tenuous, thin, thin away, thin down, thin out, twiggy, unbrace, undermine, unman, unnerve, unstrengthen, unstring, volatilize, waste, waste away, water, water down, weaken, weazen, wither, wizen
|
Browse
Attemptable Attempter Attemptive Attend Attendance Attendancy Attendant Attendant keys Attendement Attender Attendment Attent Attentate Attention attention-getting attentional Attentive attentiveness Attently Attenuant -Attenuate- Attenuation Atter Attercop Atterrate Atterration Attest Attestant Attestation Attestative Attester Attestive Attic Attic base Attic faith Attic purity Attic salt Attic story Attic style Attical Atticism
|