DILUTE
Dictionary entry overview: What does dilute mean?
• DILUTE (adjective)
The adjective DILUTE has 1 sense:
1. reduced in strength or concentration or quality or purity
Familiarity information: DILUTE used as an adjective is very rare.
• DILUTE (verb)
The verb DILUTE has 2 senses:
1. lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
2. corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
Familiarity information: DILUTE used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• DILUTE (adjective)
Meaning:
Reduced in strength or concentration or quality or purity
Synonyms:
dilute; diluted
Context examples:
diluted alcohol / a dilute solution / dilute acetic acid
Similar:
cut; thinned; weakened (mixed with water)
washy; watery; weak (overly diluted; thin and insipid)
white ((of coffee) having cream or milk added)
• DILUTE (verb)
Meaning:
Lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
dilute; thin; thin out; reduce; cut
Context example:
cut bourbon
Hypernyms (to "dilute" is one way to...):
weaken (lessen the strength of)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "dilute"):
water down (make less strong or intense)
Sentence frames:
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Meaning:
Corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
adulterate; dilute; debase; stretch
Context example:
adulterate liquor
Hypernyms (to "dilute" is one way to...):
corrupt; spoil (alter from the original)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "dilute"):
water down (thin by adding water to)
doctor; doctor up; sophisticate (alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive)
Sentence frames:
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