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attenuate

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9 lettersPronunciation /əˈtɛn.juˌeɪt/Part of speech verb, adjectiveSorted aaeentttuStarts with AEnds with E0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. become weaker, in strength, value, or magnitude

Word origin

The verb is first attested in 1530, the adjective in 1626; borrowed from Latin attenuātus, the perfect passive participle of attenuō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + tenuo (“to make thin”), itself from tenuis (“thin”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).

Used in a sentence

  • A manor-house clock from the far depths of shadow struck the hour, one, in a small, attenuated tone.
  • Clumps of attenuated turkeys were suspended here and there.
  • Lovell, wan and hollow-eyed, his arm in a sling, his once burly frame gaunt and attenuated with disease, nodded.

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