attenuate

attenuate is a 9-letter English word with 8 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To make thin or slender, as by mechanical or chemical action upon inanimate objects, or by the effects of starvation, disease, etc., upon living bodies. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To make thin or slender, as by mechanical or chemical action upon inanimate objects, or by the effects of starvation, disease, etc., upon living bodies.
2. transitive verb. To make thin or less consistent; to render less viscid or dense; to rarefy. Specifically: To subtilize, as the humors of the body, or to break them into finer parts.
3. transitive verb. To lessen the amount, force, or value of; to make less complex; to weaken.
4. intransitive verb. To become thin, slender, or fine; to grow less; to lessen.
5. adjective. Alt. of Attenuated
6. verb. become weaker, in strength, value, or magnitude
7. verb. weaken the consistency of (a chemical substance)

   Synonyms: rarefy

8. adjective. reduced in strength

   "the faded tones of an old recording"

   Synonyms: attenuated, faded, weakened

Synonyms

rarefy, attenuated, faded, weakened

Common word forms

attenuated, attenuates, attenuating

Words from these letters

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