attenuate
About 0.48 uses per million words.
Meaning
- verb To reduce in size, force, value, amount, or degree.
- verb To make thinner, as by physically reshaping, starving, or decaying.
- verb To become thin or fine; to grow less.
- verb To weaken.
- verb To rarefy.
- verb To reduce the virulence of a bacterium or virus.
- verb To reduce the amplitude of an electrical, radio, or optical signal.
- verb Of a beer, to become less dense as a result of the conversion of sugar to alcohol.
Similar words
faded rarefy reduced weakened decreased diminish minimize lessen reduce de-escalate
Often followed by
the or and this their at a it its
Word family
attenuated attenuates attenuating
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