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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 attenuated
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
- It is then said that the virulence of the microbe is attenuated.
- Extract from : « Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 » by Various
- Paternal grossness was attenuated by the maternal influence.
- Extract from : « The Fortune of the Rougons » by Emile Zola
- Even the X-type had to struggle to rise in the attenuated air now about them.
- Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 » by Various
- The spiritual is the intensity of power; the physical is the attenuated.
- Extract from : « Sex=The Unknown Quantity » by Ali Nomad
- Cassy foresaw, too, that the tedium would not be attenuated by Paliser's conversation.
- Extract from : « The Paliser case » by Edgar Saltus
- Astronomy and inflation: and by inflation we mean expansion of the attenuated.
- Extract from : « The Book of the Damned » by Charles Fort
- The creek was attenuated and hesitating, so we left it and struck off over the mountains.
- Extract from : « The Trail of '98 » by Robert W. Service
- This kind of beer will have attenuated sufficiently in from 30 to 36 hours.
- Extract from : « The American Practical Brewer and Tanner » by Joseph Coppinger
- No matter how attenuated a lethal gas is it is never entirely harmless.
- Extract from : « The Sky Trap » by Frank Belknap Long
- She attenuated him without his knowing it, for what he mainly thought was that he had aggrandised her.
- Extract from : « Nona Vincent » by Henry James
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