attenuate

attenuate

1. vaimentaa

Synonyymisanakirja

attenuate

kutistettu, pienennetty, heikennyt, vaimea, vaimennut, heikentynyt, heikentyä, laimentua, vaimentua, heiketä, heikentää, ohentaa, laimentaa.

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attenuate rimmaa näiden kanssa:

aate, olympia-aate, osuustoiminta-aate, periaate, toimintaperiaate, yleisperiaate, määräämisperiaate, toimitusperiaate, julkisuusperiaate, kansallisuusperiaate...

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Englannin sanakirja

attenuate englanniksi

1. puhekieltä To reduce in size, force, value, amount, or degree.

2. 1874, w:Thomas Hardy|Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd, ch. 40:

A manor-house clock from the far depths of shadow struck the hour, one, in a small, attenuated tone.

3. puhekieltä To make thinner, as by physically reshaping, starving, or decaying.

4. 1899, w:Stephen Crane|Stephen Crane, His New Mittens, ch. 4:

Clumps of attenuated turkeys were suspended here and there.

5. 1906, w:E. Phillips Oppenheim|E. Phillips Oppenheim, The Malefactor, ch. 1:

Lovell, wan and hollow-eyed, his arm in a sling, his once burly frame gaunt and attenuated with disease, nodded.

6. puhekieltä To weaken.

7. Coleridge

The attention attenuates as its sphere contracts.

8. Sir F. Palgrave

We may reject and reject till we attenuate history into sapless meagreness.

9. puhekieltä To rarefy.

10. 1901, w:H. G. Wells|H. G. Wells, The First Men in the Moon, ch. 23:

"It speedily became apparent that the entire strangeness of our circumstances and surroundings—great loss of weight, attenuated but highly oxygenated air, consequent exaggeration of the results of muscular effort, rapid development of weird plants from obscure spores, lurid sky—was exciting my companion unduly."

11. puhekieltä To reduce the virulence of a bacteria or virus.

12. puhekieltä To reduce the amplitude of an electrical, radio, or optical signal.

13. puhekieltä Gradually tapering into a petiole-like extension toward the base.

14. (inflection of)

15. (feminine plural of)

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