Dilute

5 definitions found

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

  Dilute \Di*lute"\, v. i.
     To become attenuated, thin, or weak; as, it dilutes easily.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Dilute \Di*lute"\, a. [L. dilutus, p. p.]
     Diluted; thin; weak.
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           A dilute and waterish exposition.        --Hopkins.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dilute \Di*lute"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Diluted}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Diluting}.] [L. dilutus, p. p. of diluere to wash away,
     dilute; di- = dis- + luere, equiv. to lavare to wash, lave.
     See {Lave}, and cf. {Deluge}.]
     1. To make thinner or more liquid by admixture with
        something; to thin and dissolve by mixing.
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              Mix their watery store.
              With the chyle's current, and dilute it more.
                                                    --Blackmore.
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     2. To diminish the strength, flavor, color, etc., of, by
        mixing; to reduce, especially by the addition of water; to
        temper; to attenuate; to weaken.
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              Lest these colors should be diluted and weakened by
              the mixture of any adventitious light. --Sir I.
                                                    Newton.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  dilute
       adj : reduced in strength or concentration or quality or purity;
             "diluted alcohol"; "a dilute solution"; "dilute acetic
             acid" [syn: {diluted}] [ant: {undiluted}]
       v 1: lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture; "cut
            bourbon" [syn: {thin}, {thin out}, {reduce}, {cut}]
       2: corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or
          inferior substance; often by replacing valuable
          ingredients with inferior ones; "adulterate liquor" [syn:
          {adulterate}, {stretch}, {debase}]

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

  71 Moby Thesaurus words for "dilute":
     abate, adulterate, adulterated, alleviate, alter, attenuate,
     baptize, bastardize, bate, blow off, cast forth, clear away,
     contaminate, corrupt, cut, debase, decrease, denaturalize,
     denature, diluted, diminish, dispel, dissipate, dissolve, doctor,
     doctor up, drive away, ease, emacerate, emaciate, etherealize,
     evaporate, expand, extenuate, fortify, impaired, impoverished,
     irrigate, lace, lessen, liquefy, mitigate, moderate, modify,
     pollute, qualify, rarefy, reduce, reduced, remit, slacken,
     sophisticated, spike, subtilize, tamper with, temper, thicken,
     thin, thin away, thin down, thin out, volatilize, washy, water,
     water down, watered-down, waterish, watery, weak, weaken,
     weakened