Definitions for attenuates

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attenuates at·ten·u·ate

Spelling: [verb uh-ten-yoo-eyt; adjective Attenuates is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 265 anagrams from letters in attenuates (aaeenstttu).

Definitions for attenuates

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 attenuates

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

Examples for attenuates

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

It would not have been difficult to attenuate the coincidence.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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