Thesaurus / attenuate
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
The Venetian shutters often had to be lowered in the summer to attenuate the great heat.
THE THREE CITIES TRILOGY, COMPLETEEMILE ZOLA
A tight beam tends to attenuate when it is thrown a hundred thousand miles.
SPACE TUGMURRAY LEINSTER
Neither were they distant; they were close to me, but attenuate.
LILITHGEORGE MACDONALD
The bodies are variable—peristomial border widely dilated, tapering and attenuate posteriorly.
MARINE PROTOZOA FROM WOODS HOLEGARY N. CALKINS
Young birds appear to acquire these attenuate primaries only after a complete moult.
ARGENTINE ORNITHOLOGY, VOLUME I (OF 2)P. L. SCLATER
In the same way, as they become more familiar with the facts, the English will attenuate their hostility to "Germans."
THE GREAT ILLUSIONNORMAN ANGELL
Involucre globular; the imbricated scales coriaceous and appressed at base, attenuate to long stiff points with hooked tips.
Some circumstances aggravate the evil in a deed, others excuse or attenuate it.
THE ETHICS OF MEDICAL HOMICIDE AND MUTILATIONAUSTIN O'MALLEY
But before she could attenuate in any way the crudity of her collapse he gave an impatient jerk which took him to the window.
WHAT MAISIE KNEWHENRY JAMES
Then seeing in the light of her eye that he had applied to her the word in the language she least liked, he hastened to attenuate.
THE TWO MAGICSHENRY JAMES
WORDS RELATED TO ATTENUATE
- abate
- attenuate
- clear
- decline
- deliquesce
- deteriorate
- die away
- die on vine
- dim
- diminish
- disappear
- disperse
- dissolve
- droop
- ebb
- etiolate
- evanesce
- evanish
- evaporate
- fag out
- fail
- fall
- flag
- fold
- hush
- languish
- lessen
- melt
- melt away
- moderate
- perish
- peter out
- quiet
- rarefy
- shrivel
- sink
- slack off
- taper
- thin
- tire
- tucker out
- vanish
- wane
- waste away
- weaken
- wilt
- wither
- action
- attenuate
- batter
- blunt
- cripple
- damage
- debilitate
- disarm
- disenable
- disqualify
- enervate
- enfeeble
- exhaust
- hamstring
- handicap
- harm
- hock
- hogtie
- hurt
- impair
- incapacitate
- invalidate
- kibosh
- knock out
- maim
- mangle
- mar
- mutilate
- muzzle
- paralyze
- pinion
- prostrate
- put out of action
- render incapable
- ruin
- sabotage
- sap
- shatter
- shoot down
- spoil
- take out
- throw monkey wrench in
- total
- unbrace
- undermine
- unfit
- unstrengthen
- weaken
- wreck
- action
- attenuate
- batter
- blunt
- cripple
- damage
- debilitate
- disarm
- disenable
- disqualify
- enervate
- enfeeble
- exhaust
- hamstring
- handicap
- harm
- hock
- hogtie
- hurt
- impair
- incapacitate
- invalidate
- kibosh
- knock out
- maim
- mangle
- mar
- mutilate
- muzzle
- paralyze
- pinion
- prostrate
- put out of action
- render incapable
- ruin
- sabotage
- sap
- shatter
- shoot down
- spoil
- take out
- throw monkey wrench in
- total
- unbrace
- undermine
- unfit
- unstrengthen
- weaken
- wreck
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