attenuated

verbweaken

Synonyms for attenuated

verb weaken

Antonyms for attenuated

Word Origin & History

"to make thin, to make less," 1520s, from Latin attenuatus "enfeebled, weak," past participle of attenuare "to make thin, lessen, diminish," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + tenuare "make thin," from tenuis "thin" (see tenet). Related: Attenuated; attenuating. Earlier was Middle English attenuen "to make thin (in consistency)," early 15c.

Example Sentences for attenuated

It is then said that the virulence of the microbe is attenuated.

Paternal grossness was attenuated by the maternal influence.

Even the X-type had to struggle to rise in the attenuated air now about them.

The spiritual is the intensity of power; the physical is the attenuated.

Cassy foresaw, too, that the tedium would not be attenuated by Paliser's conversation.

Astronomy and inflation: and by inflation we mean expansion of the attenuated.

The creek was attenuated and hesitating, so we left it and struck off over the mountains.

This kind of beer will have attenuated sufficiently in from 30 to 36 hours.

No matter how attenuated a lethal gas is it is never entirely harmless.

She attenuated him without his knowing it, for what he mainly thought was that he had aggrandised her.

attenuated

Synonyms for attenuated

Antonyms for attenuated

diluted/dilute

emaciated

gaunt

lank

lanky

attenuated

Synonyms for attenuated

Antonyms for attenuated

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