Meaning of attenuate | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To reduce in size, force, value, amount, or degree.
   transitive
2. To make thinner, as by physically reshaping, starving, or decaying.
   transitive
3. To become thin, weak, or fine.
4. To become thin or fine; to grow less.
   intransitive
5. To make slender, fine, or small: The drought attenuated the river to a narrow channel.
6. To weaken.
   transitive
7. To reduce in force, value, amount, or degree; weaken: Medicine attenuated the fever's effect.
8. To rarefy.
   transitive
9. To lessen the density of; rarefy.
10. To reduce the virulence of a bacterium or virus.
    transitive
11. Biology To make (bacteria or viruses) less virulent.
    Biology
12. To reduce the amplitude of an electrical, radio, or optical signal.
    transitive
13. Electronics To reduce (the amplitude of an electrical signal) with little or no distortion.
    Electronics
14. (of a beer) To become less dense as a result of the conversion of sugar to alcohol.
15. Reduced or weakened, as in strength, value, or virulence.
16. Botany Gradually tapering to a slender point.
    Botany
17. to weaken or become weak; reduce in size, strength, density, or value
18. to make or become thin or fine; extend

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Examples

“A manor-house clock from the far depths of shadow struck the hour, one, in a small, attenuated tone.”

“Clumps of attenuated turkeys were suspended here and there.”

“Lovell, wan and hollow-eyed, his arm in a sling, his once burly frame gaunt and attenuated with disease, nodded.”

“We may reject and reject till we attenuate history into sapless meagreness.”

“"It speedily became apparent that the entire strangeness of our circumstances and surroundings—great loss of weight, attenuated but highly oxygenated air, consequent exaggeration of the results of muscular effort, rapid development of weird plants from obscure spores, lurid sky—was exciting my companion unduly."”

“A beer which does not attenuate to the expected level in fermentation will have more residual sugar and thus be sweeter and heavier-bodied.”

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