ATTENUATE
Dictionary entry overview: What does attenuate mean?
• ATTENUATE (adjective)
The adjective ATTENUATE has 1 sense:
1. reduced in strength
Familiarity information: ATTENUATE used as an adjective is very rare.
• ATTENUATE (verb)
The verb ATTENUATE has 2 senses:
1. weaken the consistency of (a chemical substance)
2. become weaker, in strength, value, or magnitude
Familiarity information: ATTENUATE used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ATTENUATE (adjective)
Meaning:
Reduced in strength
Synonyms:
attenuate; attenuated; faded; weakened
Context example:
the faded tones of an old recording
Similar:
decreased; reduced (made less in size or amount or degree)
• ATTENUATE (verb)
Meaning:
Weaken the consistency of (a chemical substance)
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
attenuate; rarefy
Hypernyms (to "attenuate" is one way to...):
weaken (lessen the strength of)
Domain category:
chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Become weaker, in strength, value, or magnitude
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "attenuate" is one way to...):
weaken (become weaker)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "attenuate"):
refine (attenuate or reduce in vigor, strength, or validity by polishing or purifying)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
