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attenuate

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1. attenuate - Adjective

2. attenuate - Verb

3. attenuate - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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.

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.

To lessen the amount, force, or value of; to make less complex; to weaken.

To become thin, slender, or fine; to grow less; to lessen.

Alt. of Attenuated

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[Diseases] crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, shrivel them up like old apples, make them so many anatomies. Robert Burton

In a cruel irony, speculators - rather then elected politicians - are the shots on crisis management. In an absurd logic, those who foster financial turbulence have been invited by the G7 Finance ministers to identify policies which attenuate financial turbulence. Michel Chossudovsky

Allow me to attenuate my portentousness for you. Iain Banks

the faded tones of an old recording Source: Internet

As Keri Glastonbury has it in a line from one of her inclusions, many of these poems are characterised by their particular ability to attenuate. Source: Internet

In liquid jet engines the droplet size and distribution can be used to attenuate the instabilities. Source: Internet

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