Synonyms of the word attenuate


ATTENUATEATTENUATED - DECREASED - FADED - RAREFY - REDUCED - WEAKEN - WEAKENED

attenuate

  • v. (transitive) To reduce in size, force, value, amount, or degree.
  • v. (transitive) To make thinner, as by physically reshaping, starving, or decaying.
  • v. (transitive) To weaken.
  • v. (transitive) To rarefy.
  • v. (transitive, medicine) To reduce the virulence of a bacterium or virus.
  • v. (transitive, electronics) To reduce the amplitude of an electrical, radio, or optical signal.
  • adj. (botany, of leaves) Gradually tapering into a petiole-like extension toward the base.

attenuated

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of attenuate.
  • adj. Made, or become weak; subject to attenuation.
  • adj. (botany) Long and tapering (especially of leaves).

decreased

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of decrease.

faded

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of fade.
  • adj. (sometimes figuratively) That has lost some of its former colour or intensity.

rarefy

  • v. To make rare, thin, porous, or less dense.
  • v. To expand or enlarge without adding any new portion of matter to.

reduced

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of reduce.
  • adj. Made smaller or less, resulting from reduction.
  • adj. Reduced, lowered in price; on sale, at discount price.
  • adj. In cookery, of a sauce etc., made more concentrated.

weaken

  • v. (transitive) To make weaker.
  • v. (intransitive) To become weaker.

weakened

  • adj. Reduced, made less strong.
  • v. simple past tense and past participle of weaken.

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