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attenuate 音标拼音: [ət'ɛnju ,et] v. 使变稀薄;使变细;弄淡 使变稀薄;使变细;弄淡 attenuate递减 attenuate adj 1: reduced in strength; " the faded tones of an old recording" [ synonym: { attenuate}, { attenuated}, { faded}, { weakened}] v 1: weaken the consistency of ( a chemical substance) [ synonym: { rarefy}, { attenuate}] 2: become weaker, in strength, value, or magnitudeAttenuate \ At* ten" u* ate\, v. i. To become thin, slender, or fine; to grow less; to lessen. [ 1913 Webster] The attention attenuates as its sphere contracts. -- Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster] Attenuate
Attenuate \ At* ten" u* ate\, Attenuated \ At* ten" u* a` ted\, a. [ L. attenuatus, p. p.] 1. Made thin or slender. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Made thin or less viscid; rarefied. -- Bacon. [ 1913 Webster]
Attenuate \ At* ten" u* ate\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Attenuated}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Attenuating}.] [ L. attenuatus, p. p. of attenuare; ad tenuare to make thin, tenuis thin. See { Thin}.] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster] 2. 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. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To lessen the amount, force, or value of; to make less complex; to weaken. [ 1913 Webster] To undersell our rivals . . . has led the manufacturer to . . . attenuate his processes, in the allotment of tasks, to an extreme point. -- I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster] We may reject and reject till we attenuate history into sapless meagerness. -- Sir F. Palgrave. [ 1913 Webster] 95 Moby Thesaurus words for " attenuate": Sanforize, abate, adulterate, alleviate, attenuated, baptize, bate, blow off, blunt, cast forth, clear away, constrict, consume, contract, cramp, cripple, cut, damp, dampen, deaden, debilitate, deflate, dematerialize, devitalize, dilute, disable, disembody, dispel, dissipate, dissolve, drive away, dry up, dull, ease, emacerate, emaciate, enervate, enfeeble, etherealize, evaporate, eviscerate, exhaust, expand, extenuate, gruel, irrigate, lay low, lessen, macerate, mitigate, parch, preshrink, rare, rarefied, rarefy, rattle, reduce, reedy, remit, sap, sear, shake, shake up, shrink, shrivel, slacken, slender, slight, slim, soften up, spiritualize, subtile, subtilize, subtle, tenuous, thin, thin away, thin down, thin out, twiggy, unbrace, undermine, unman, unnerve, unstrengthen, unstring, volatilize, waste, waste away, water, water down, weaken, weazen, wither, wizen
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