Attenuate

Definition: Attenuate

Attenuate

Adjective

1. Reduced in strength; "the faded tones of an old recording".

Verb

1. Weaken the consistency of (a chemical substance).

2. Become weaker, in strength, value, or magnitude.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "attenuate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references)

Physics

Public Administration

Science

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Attenuate

Contraction

Abrade, pare, reduce, attenuate, rub down, scrape, file, file down, grind, grind down, chip, shave, shear, wear down.

Nonincrease, Decrease

Bate, abate, dequantitate; discount; depreciate; extenuate, lower, weaken, attenuate, fritter away; mitigate; (moderate); dwarf, throw into the shade; reduce; shorten; subtract. Adjective: unincreased; (see increase;); decreased; Verb: decreasing; Verb: on the wane; n.

Pulverulence

Reduce to powder, grind to powder; pulverize, comminute, granulate, triturate, levigate; scrape, file, abrade, rub down, grind, grate, rasp, pound, bray, bruise; contuse, contund; beat, crush, cranch, craunch, crunch, scranch, crumble, disintegrate; attenuate .

Crosswords: Attenuate

Health

Generally, cellulosic-based membranes, in contrast to the more biocompatible membranes, have a greater capacity to activate complement and to attenuate the granulocyte response. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "attenuate": attenuate attenuated faded weakened ♦ attenuate leaf. Additional references.

Albanian

zbutet (be soothed, mellow, melt, relent, tone down), zbut (allay, amortise, amortize, appease, assuage, break, calm, chasten, commute, daunt, disarm, ease, extenuate, malaxate, manage, melt, mince, mitigate, moderate, modify, mollify, palatalize, palliate, propitiate, qualify, reclaim, relax, relieve, smooth, soften, soothe, subdue, tame, temper, tenderize, tone down), zbus (allay, amortise, amortize, assuage, break, calm, calm down, domesticate, ease, macerate, propitiate, relax, soften), lehtësoj (allay, alleviate, assuage, calm, dull, enable, extenuate, facilitate, lighten, mitigate, palliate, relax, release, relieve, shake, soften, solace, soothe), dobësoj (debilitate, depauperate, depress, devitalize, dilute, dim, diminish, dull, emaciate, emasculate, enervate, enfeeble, impair, reduce, use up, weaken). (various references)

Arabic 

‏هزل (badinage, emaciate, extenuate, fun, humor, humour, joke, languish, peak, pine, pine away, playfulness, pleasantry, reduce, slim, thin), ‏نحل (decompose, degenerate, disband, disentangle, disintegrate, dissolve, emaciate, loosen, melt, pervert, pine, resolve, slim, thin, unravel, untie, unwind), ‏لطف (affableness, allay, alleviate, amenity, amiability, appease, assuage, attemper, benignity, civility, courtesy, ease, extenuate, friendliness, geniality, gentleness, kindness, lighten, mildness, mitigate, moderate, modify, mollify, palliate, politeness, qualify, quell, relax, relieve, smooth, soften, softness, soothe, suavity, sweeten, temper, tone down, urbanity), ‏وهن (asthenia, attenuation, damp, dampen, debilitate, debility, decay, discouragement, distemper, droop, enervate, enfeeble, extenuate, feebleness, imitators, infirmity, invalidate, languish, languishment, languor, pall, relax, sap, shrivel, sickliness, thin, weak spot, weaken, weaklings), ‏خفف (alleviate, attemper, deaden, ease off, extenuate, gloss over the facts, lessen, mitigate, modify, muffle, palliate, qualify, relax, relent, relieve, remit, slack, slake, slim, solace, subdue, succor, succour, thin, water down), ‏أضعف (break, debilitate, decay, decline, depress, detach, diminish, disable, emaciate, emasculate, enervate, enfeeble, fade, geld, hone, hurt, impair, incapacitate, invalidate, jellify, languish, lose weight, macerate, neutralize, pall, perish, reduce, run down, sag, sap, shorten, sink, slacken, slake, soften, subside, thin, waste, weaken), ‏رقق (foliate, tenderize, thin). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разреждам (dilute, qualify, rarefy, reduce, space, water down), ослабям, ослабвам (depress), намалявам (abate, abbreviate, allay, bring down, clip, contract, curtail, cut back, cut down, decline, decrease, deduct, deflate, degrade, deplete, detract, dim, diminish, ebb, extenuate, fine, impair, knock off, lessen, lighten, lull, minify, minimize, moderate, modify, pare down, prejudice, put back, put down, reduce, remit, run down, scant, shorten, shrink, sink, slacken, subdue, take from, thin, thin away, thin down, understate, wane, work down). (various references)

Chinese 

变稀 (Attenuated, Attenuating). (various references)

Czech

ztenèit. (various references)

Danish

svække, dæmpe. (various references)

Dutch

verzwakken (abate, weaken). (various references)

Farsi 

نازک کردن (Extenuate, Thin), نازک (Eggshell, Ethereal, Fine, Frail, Gossamer, Slim, Soft, Spare, Tenuous), لاغرکردن (Atrophy, Gaunt, Thin), تقلیل دادن (Cutback, Cutdown, Lessen, Scrimp, Weaken), سبک کردن (Alight, Alleviate, Ease, Lighten, Mitigate), رقیق کردن (Dilute, Extenuate, Thin), رقیق (Ethereal, Rare, Thin, Watery), دقیق شدن . (various references)

Finnish

vaimentaa (moderate, muffle), vähentää (curtail, cut, decrease, deduct, detract from, diminish, lessen, reduce, subtract, take from, take off). (various references)

French

attenuer, atténuer, affiner, s'atténuer, réduire. (various references)

German

abschwächen (deaden, dull, extenuate, lessen, mellow, muffle, soften, temper, to attenuate, to extenuate, tone down, understate, water down, weaken). (various references)

Greek 

εξασθενώ (debilitate, emasculate, impair, languish, weaken). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"חליש (abate, deaden, detach, enervate, enfeeble, impair, slacken, weaken, wear down), ל�"�"ליל. (various references)

Hungarian

hígít (dilute, extenuate, rarefy, to dilute, to extenuate, to slack, to thin, to water, to weaken, water down), csillapít (assuage, mitigate, palliate, salve, sate, soothe, to allay, to alleviate, to appease, to assuage, to attenuate, to deaden, to mitigate, to mollify, to salve, to sedate, to soothe), csökkent (abate, alleviate, cut, cut back, decrease, diminish, look down, lower, mitigate, reduce, reduced, remit, step down, to abate, to abridge, to ax, to curtail, to cut back, to cut down, to deflate, to depress, to derogate, to ease, to ease down, to lessen, to lower, to pare down, to pull in, to put down, to reduce, to release, to send down, to slack, to slacken, to step down, tone down, understate). (various references)

Indonesian

menguruskan, mengurangi (abridge, curtail, deaden, deduct, detract, diminish, relieve, substract), melaifkan (enfeeble, weaken). (various references)

Italian

attenuare (alleviate, dilute, dull, ease, extenuate, mitigate, muffle, soften, subdue, tone down, understate). (various references)

Korean 

묽게 하십시�". (various references)

Manx

thannaghey (bed in; thinning, cracking up of oil; shoal of waters, cracking up; shoal of waters, dilute, dilution, emaciate, liquefy, rarefaction, rarefy, rarefying, reduce, reduction, shallow, slenderize, slim, thin), sheeyney magh (attenuation, distend, distention, expand, expansion, extend, fork out, hold out, lengthen, pass round, prolong, protract, protraction, push out, put out, reach, stretch out, unfold, unfold as landscape), keylagh (attenuation, slenderize, thin, thinning). (various references)

Pig Latin

attenuateay

Portuguese

atenuar (blunt, dilute, diminish, lessen, mitigate, modify, mutate, qualify, reduce, relax, relieve, shade, slake, soften, soft-pedal, weaken). (various references)

Romanian

atenuat (delicate, remissive), atenua (abate, alleviate, dilute, diminish, dull, extenuate, gloze, mellow, reduce, soften, subdue, subjugate, tone down, water down), slãbi (abate, Bate, crock, debilitate, depauperate, diminish, drain, droop, dull, ease, emaciate, emasculate, enfeeble, extenuate, fade, fail, flag, go down, grow weak, impair, languish, let, loosen, lose flesh, lose weight, macerate, mine, peak and pine, pinch, pull down, reduce, relax, sap, sink, slack, slacken, slenderize, slim, soften, subdue, subside, take the edge off, thin, undermine, weaken), rarefiat (tenuous, thin), rarefia (rarefy), micşorat (contracted, low, reduced), micşora (abate, abridge, Bate, belittle, contract, cut, deaden, decrease, detract, dilute, dock, drop, dwarf, ease, knock down, lessen, lighten, lower, mellow, mitigate, narrow, palliate, pare, pare down, put down, rebate, reduce, remit, restrain, retrench, shorten, stop, subdue, subjugate, weaken, whittle away), diluat (diluted, discursive, washy, weak), dilua (dilute, dissolve, temper, weaken). (various references)

Russian 

смягчать (assuage, commute, damp, extenuate, mellow, melt, mitigate, moderate, mollify, palatalize, palliate, relax, remit, soft pedal, soften, subdue, tone down), разжижать (dilute, rarefy, thin), ослаблять (abate, allay, debilitate, dilute, diminish, ease off, emasculate, enfeeble, extenuate, impair, loosen, reduce, relax, relieve, slacken, unbrace, unloose, weaken), истощать (debilitate, depauperate, deplete, drain, emaciate, exhaust, impoverish, outwear, sap, sapped, sapping, wear out). (various references)

Scottish

caolaich. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

umanjiti (cut back, decrease, detract, diminish, extenuate, make a hole in, minify, minimize, reduce, turn down), razrediti (dilute, rarefy, thin), razblažiti (dilute, water down). (various references)

Spanish

atenuar (extenuate, weaken). (various references)

Swedish

försvaga (bring low, debilitate, depress, devitalize, dilute, diminish, emasculate, enervate, enfeeble, impair, reduce, sap, unnerve, weaken). (various references)

Thai

ผอมลง, ทำให้ผอมลง. (various references)

Turkish

azaltmak (abate, alleviate, appease, ax, axe, Bate, cut back, cut down on, deaden, decrease, depress, derogate, detract, diminish, dock, fade in, impair, lessen, make a dent in, minimize, mitigate, put down, reduce, retrench, scale down, shorten, sink, slim down, step back, step down, taper off), azalmış (shortened), seyreltmek (adulterate, cut, dilute, rarefy, subtilize, thin down, thin of, thin out), seyreltik (dilute, diluted, rare), söndürmek (damp, damp down, dampen, deflate, douse, dowse, extinguish, hydrate, kill, put out, quench, slack, slacken, slake, snuff out, suffocate, switch off, trample out, turn off, turn out), kısmak (abridge, ax, axe, check, choke, choke back, choke off, curtail, cut back, cut down on, depress, diminish, draw in, economize, narrow, pare, pare down, pinch, put down, qualify, reduce, retrench, scrimp, skimp, soften, stint, throttle, throttle down, tighten, turn down), inceltmek (diminish, fine away, fine down, reduce, refine, sharpen, slenderize, subtilize, thin, thin down, thin of, thin out), ince (attic, brittle, civilized, courteous, dainty, delicate, fine, fragile, graceful, gracile, gracious, keen, lean, nice, polite, precision, refined, scarious, sharp, slender, slim, subtile, subtle, sylphish, sylphlike, sylphy, tenuous, thin, trickish, tricksy, tricky, urbane, vaporous), hafifletmek (allay, alleviate, appease, assuage, commute, deaden, de-escalate, ease, emasculate, extenuate, facilitate, lighten, mitigate, moderate, modify, palliate, qualify, relieve, remit, soft pedal, subdue, water, weaken), değerini düşürmek (alloy, bemean, cheap, cheapen, damage, debase, depreciate, detract, devaluate, devalue). (various references)

Ukrainian

слабнути (break up, droop, fail, faint, let up, tone down), розріджений (attenuated, rarefied, tenuous), розчиняти (dissolve, embowel, solve, spade), розбавляти (dilute), худнути (emaciate, grow thin, lose weight, reduce, slenderize, slim, thin, thin away), худий (angular, emaciate, emaciated, ill-conditioned, jejune, lanky, lean, meager, meagre, scrannel, skimpy, spare, spiny, thin), виснажувати (crock, debilitate, depauperate, deplete, distress, drain, emaciate, exhaust, impoverish, macerate, overcome, overdrive, prostrate, pull down, sap, use up, waste), виснажений (all in, atrophic, atrophous, attenuated, barren, beat, bedrid, cachectic, crocked, effete, emaciate, emaciated, exhausted, hidebound, impoverished, jaded, outspent, outworn, overcome, overdriven, overworn, perished, played out, sapless, spent, wan, washed out, washed up, weariful, whipped-up, worn, worn out), ослабляти (abate, allay, deaden, debilitate, depress, emasculate, enfeeble, extenuate, impair, infirm, let down, loosen, lower, overcome, relax, slack, slacken, subdue, unbind, water, weaken), пом'якшувати (allay, alleviate, appease, assuage, dulcify, expurgate, gentle, milden, mitigate, modify, mollify, palatalize, rebate, remit, smooth, smooth over, soft pedal, soften, soothe, tone down). (various references)

Vietnamese 

mảnh dẻ yếu đi, mảnh bớt gầy còm, mỏng bớt, giảm bớt loãng đi. (various references)

Welsh

teneuo (thin), lleihau (abate, decrease, diminish, lessen). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "attenuate": attenuated, attenuates. (additional references)

Words containing "attenuate": unattenuated. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Attenuate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: atenuate, Attanayake, attentuate, attenuata, attenuater, attenutate, Attneave. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: attent, attune, nutate, tauten.

-4 letters: antae, eaten, enate, taunt, tenet, tutee.

-5 letters: anta, ante, aunt, etna, neat, nett, tate, taut, teat, teen, tent, tuna, tune.

+1 letter: attenuated, attenuates.

+3 letters: authenticate, unattenuated.

+4 letters: authenticated, authenticates.