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attenuate

at·ten·u·ate

attenuate

 
 
parts of speech:
transitive verb, intransitive verb, adjective
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Word Combinations (verb)
part of speech: transitive verb
pronunciation: ten yu eIt
inflections: attenuates, attenuating, attenuated
definition 1: to make less in quantity, quality, or effect; weaken.
Contrary to what many people believe, drinking coffee will not attenuate the effects of alcohol.The special insulation attenuates the noise from the highway.
antonyms:
amplify, augment, enhance, intensify, magnify, strengthen
similar words:
decrease, impair, weaken
definition 2: to cause to be thin, rarefied, or fine.
Warming the oil will attenuate it.
antonyms:
condense, thicken
similar words:
rarefy, thin
 
part of speech: intransitive verb
definition: to become thin, rarefied, or fine.
similar words:
narrow, rarefy
Word Combinations  About this feature
adverb + (v.)attenuate also, considerably, either, far, gradually, greatly, highly, however, inaccurately, increasingly, less, more, much, naturally, potentially, significantly, slightly, somewhat, substantially, thereby
(v.)attenuate + nounHelp ability, action, activity, affair, association, atmosphere, body, cable, cell, change, chemical, class, color, condition, connection, correlation, culture, damage, death, depression, difference, distance, distress, dopamine, drop, drug, ear, education, effect, environment, error, example, factor, fiber, form, glass, goodness, guinea, haze, impact, impression, incentive, inclusion, injury, interest, intervention, light, magnitude, management, mass, material, method, motivation, nature, noise, outcome, pain, parent, pattern, perception, perspective, policy, process, protest, rate, ray, relation, relationship, reliability, religiosity, response, risk, sense, shock, signal, society, sound, source, space, strain, strength, stress, sunlight, system, temperature, tie, transmission, use, vaccine, variable, virus, water, wave [See all][See only the most frequent]
 
part of speech: adjective
pronunciation: ten yu iht
definition: made thin, rarefied, or fine; weakened; attenuated.
an attenuate mixture
similar words:
tenuous
derivation: attenuation (n.)