Dictionary Entry
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
- 1transitive 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.
- 2transitive 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.
- 3transitive verb
To lessen the amount, force, or value of; to make less complex; to weaken.
- 4intransitive verb
To become thin, slender, or fine; to grow less; to lessen.
- 5adjective
Alt. of Attenuated
- 6verb
become weaker, in strength, value, or magnitude
- 7verb
weaken the consistency of (a chemical substance)
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- 8adjective
reduced in strength
"the faded tones of an old recording"
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