Definitions for attenuate

attenuate at·ten·u·ate

Spelling: [verb uh-ten-yoo-eyt; adjective Attenuate is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 110 anagrams from letters in attenuate (aaeentttu).

Definitions for attenuate

verb (used with object)

  1. to weaken or reduce in force, intensity, effect, quantity, or value:
  2. to make thin; make slender or fine.
  3. Bacteriology, Immunology. to render less virulent, as a strain of pathogenic virus or bacterium.
  4. Electronics. to decrease the amplitude of (an electronic signal).

verb (used without object)

  1. to become thin or fine; lessen.

adjective

  1. weakened; diminishing.
  2. Botany. tapering gradually to a narrow extremity.

Origin of attenuate

First recorded in 1520-30, attenuate is from the Latin word attenuātus (past participle of attenuāre to thin, reduce). See at-, tenuis,

Examples for attenuate

It does not attenuate the power and originality of his themes that they are essentially of the piano.

The Venetian shutters often had to be lowered in the summer to attenuate the great heat.

Israeli retaliation of some kind is probably inevitable, but American influence can do much to attenuate the damage it causes.

Indeed, he seemed to be trying to attenuate that when he spoke next.

It would not have been difficult to attenuate the coincidence.

I shall not attempt to laugh off the question, or to attenuate its importance.

Pitt was right in his facts; but etiquette required that he should withdraw or at least attenuate his charge.

Neither were they distant; they were close to me, but attenuate.

How much does it attenuate the value of his intentions, as proofs of an internal philosophical sequence?

It will attenuate, at least with respect to him, the severity of simple minds.

Word Value for attenuate
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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