Sekirov Dictionary

attenuate

/əˈtɛn.juˌeɪt/

verb 8
adjective 3
forms 6

verb8

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To reduce in size, force, value, amount, or degree.
- A manor-house clock from the far depths of shadow struck the hour, one, in a small, attenuated tone. — 1874
•
To weaken.
- We may reject and reject till we attenuate history into sapless meagreness. — 1851
To reduce the virulence of a bacterium or virus.
To reduce the amplitude of an electrical, radio, or optical signal.
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To make thinner, as by physically reshaping, starving, or decaying.
- Clumps of attenuated turkeys were suspended here and there. — 1899
To become thin or fine; to grow less.
To rarefy.
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Of a beer, to become less dense as a result of the conversion of sugar to alcohol.
- A beer which does not attenuate to the expected level in fermentation will have more residual sugar and thus be sweeter and heavier-bodied. — 2009

adjective3

Slender, thin.
Gradually tapering into a petiole-like extension toward the base.
Rarefied, thin, refined.

forms

attenuated · attenuating · attenuates · attenuateth · more attenuate · most attenuate

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