Attenuated

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Attenuate \At*ten"u*ate\, Attenuated \At*ten"u*a`ted\, a. [L.
     attenuatus, p. p.]
     1. Made thin or slender.
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     2. Made thin or less viscid; rarefied. --Bacon.


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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Attenuate \At*ten"u*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Attenuated}; p.
     pr. & vb. n. {Attenuating}.] [L. attenuatus, p. p. of
     attenuare; ad + tenuare to make thin, tenuis thin. See
     {Thin}.]
     1. 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.
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     2. 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.
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     3. To lessen the amount, force, or value of; to make less
        complex; to weaken.
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              To undersell our rivals . . . has led the
              manufacturer to . . . attenuate his processes, in
              the allotment of tasks, to an extreme point. --I.
                                                    Taylor.
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              We may reject and reject till we attenuate history
              into sapless meagerness.              --Sir F.
                                                    Palgrave.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  decreased \decreased\ adj.
     made less in size or amount or degree. Opposite of
     {increased}. [Narrower terms: {attenuate, attenuated, faded,
     weakened}; {belittled, diminished, small}; {cut, cut-rate};
     {diminished, lessened}; {minimized}; {remittent};
     {attenuated}]
  
     Syn: reduced.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  attenuated
       adj 1: of an electrical signal; reduced in amplitude with little or
              no distortion
       2: reduced in strength; "the faded tones of an old recording"
          [syn: {attenuate}, {faded}, {weakened}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  145 Moby Thesaurus words for "attenuated":
     Sanforized, abated, ablated, adulterated, airy, attenuate, bated,
     belittled, boyish, cadaverous, consumed, contracted, corky,
     corpselike, curtailed, cut, dainty, decreased, deflated, delicate,
     diaphanous, dilute, diluted, diminished, dissipated, downy,
     dried-up, dropped, emacerated, emaciate, emaciated, eroded,
     ethereal, fallen, filmy, fine, fine-drawn, fine-grained, finespun,
     flimsy, fluffy, frail, fuzzy, gaseous, gauzy, girlish, gossamer,
     gossamery, gracile, haggard, hollow-eyed, insubstantial, jejune,
     lacy, less, lesser, light, lower, lowered, marantic, marasmic,
     miniaturized, misty, papery, parched, peaked, peaky, pinched, poor,
     preshrunk, pubescent, puny, rare, rarefied, reduced, refined,
     retrenched, satin, satiny, scaled-down, sear, shorn, shorter,
     shriveled, shriveled up, shrunk, shrunken, silky, skeletal,
     slender, slenderish, slight, slight-made, slim, slimmish, slinky,
     small, smaller, smooth, starved, starveling, subtile, subtle,
     svelte, sylphlike, tabetic, tabid, tenuous, thin, thin-bodied,
     thin-set, thin-spun, thinned, thinned-out, thinnish, threadlike,
     uncompact, uncompressed, underfed, undernourished, unsubstantial,
     vague, vaporous, velutinous, velvety, wasp-waisted, wasted,
     wasted away, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, weakened,
     weazened, weazeny, willowy, windy, wiredrawn, wispy, withered,
     wizen, wizen-faced, wizened, worn, wraithlike