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Grammar : Verb
Spell : verb uh-ten-yoo-eyt; adjective uh-ten-yoo-it, -eyt
Phonetic Transcription : verb əˈtɛn yuˌeɪt; adjective əˈtɛn yu ɪt, -ˌeɪt

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Définition of attenuate

Origin :
  • "to make thin, to make less," 1520s, from Latin attenuatus "enfeebled, weak," past participle of attenuare "to make thin, lessen, diminish," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + tenuare "make thin," from tenuis "thin" (see tenet). Related: Attenuated; attenuating. Earlier was Middle English attenuen "to make thin (in consistency)," early 15c.
  • verb weaken
Example sentences :
  • The Venetian shutters often had to be lowered in the summer to attenuate the great heat.
  • Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola
  • It will attenuate, at least with respect to him, the severity of simple minds.
  • Extract from : « Cosmopolis, Complete » by Paul Bourget
  • I shall not attempt to laugh off the question, or to attenuate its importance.
  • Extract from : « Chapter of Autobiography » by W E Gladstone
  • It does not attenuate the power and originality of his themes that they are essentially of the piano.
  • Extract from : « Unicorns » by James Huneker
  • It would not have been difficult to attenuate the coincidence.
  • Extract from : « Play-Making » by William Archer
  • Indeed, he seemed to be trying to attenuate that when he spoke next.
  • Extract from : « The Wild Olive » by Basil King
  • Neither were they distant; they were close to me, but attenuate.
  • Extract from : « Lilith » by George MacDonald
  • Pitt was right in his facts; but etiquette required that he should withdraw or at least attenuate his charge.
  • Extract from : « William Pitt and the Great War » by John Holland Rose
  • How much does it attenuate the value of his intentions, as proofs of an internal philosophical sequence?
  • Extract from : « Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume I (of 4) » by George Grote
  • But the important thing is that the sacrilege should be accompanied with precautions which attenuate it.
  • Extract from : « The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life » by Emile Durkheim

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