| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To soften, weaken, enervate, dilute or undermine.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To reduce, abate or lessen. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To allay, alleviate, appease, relieve or assuage. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To curb, restrain, check, detain or embank. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To castigate or chasten. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To quell, stifle or subdue.[Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Present participle conjugation of the verb attenuate.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (attenuate) | 1. Weaken the consistency of (a chemical substance).[Wordnet]. 2. Become weaker, in strength, value, or magnitude.[Wordnet]. 3. To become thin, slender, or fine; to grow less; to lessen.[Websters]. 4. 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.[Websters]. 5. 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.[Websters]. 6. To lessen the amount, force, or value of; to make less complex; to weaken.[Websters]. 7. Base verb from the following inflections: attenuating, attenuated, attenuates, attenuator, attenuators, attenuatingly and attenuatedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective | 1. Being depressing.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Being incapacitating. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being extenuating. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being dwindling or diminishing. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being debilitating or enervating. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Being soothing, palliative, anodyne or sedative. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Being drooping or sagging.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "ATTENUATING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1775. (references) |
Specialty Definition: ATTENUATING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Making thin, as fluids; making fine, as solid substances; making slender or lean.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of attenuate. (references) | ||
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