Definition of attenuate

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Attenuate (v. i.) To become thin, slender, or fine; to grow less; to lessen..

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Attenuate :: Attenuate (v. t.) To make thin or less consistent; to render less viscid or dense; to rarefy. Specifically: To subtilize, as the humors of the body, or to break them into finer parts..
Ecphractic :: Ecphractic (a.) Serving to dissolve or attenuate viscid matter, and so to remove obstructions; deobstruent..
Gross :: Gross (superl.) Thick; dense; not attenuated; as, a gross medium..
Pasteurism :: Pasteurism (n.) A method of treatment, devised by Pasteur, for preventing certain diseases, as hydrophobia, by successive inoculations with an attenuated virus of gradually increasing strength..
Vaccine :: Vaccine (n.) any preparation used to render an organism immune to some disease, by inducing or increasing the natural immunity mechanisms. Prior to 1995, such preparations usually contained killed organisms of the type for which immunity was desired, and sometimes used live organisms having attenuated virulence. since that date, preparations containing only specific antigenic portions of the pathogenic organism are also used, some of which are prepared by genetic engineering techniques..
Attenuate :: Attenuate (v. t.) To make thin or slender, as by mechanical or chemical action upon inanimate objects, or by the effects of starvation, disease, etc., upon living bodies..
Finespun :: Finespun (a.) Spun so as to be fine; drawn to a fine thread; attenuated; hence, unsubstantial; visionary; as, finespun theories..
Tenuate :: Tenuate (v. t.) To make thin; to attenuate.
Attenuated :: Attenuated (a.) Made thin or less viscid; rarefied.
Attenuated :: Attenuated (a.) Made thin or slender.
Attenuate :: Attenuate (v. t.) To lessen the amount, force, or value of; to make less complex; to weaken..
Dilute :: Dilute (v. t.) To diminish the strength, flavor, color, etc., of, by mixing; to reduce, especially by the addition of water; to temper; to attenuate; to weaken..
Attenuated :: Attenuated (imp. & p. p.) of Attenuat.
Attenuate :: Attenuate (v. i.) To become thin, slender, or fine; to grow less; to lessen..
Attenuate :: Attenuate (a.) Alt. of Attenuate.
Dilute :: Dilute (v. i.) To become attenuated, thin, or weak; as, it dilutes easily..
Gaunt :: Gaunt (a.) Attenuated, as with fasting or suffering; lean; meager; pinched and grim..
Fine :: Fine (superl.) Thin; attenuate; keen; as, a fine edge..
Wedge-tailed :: Wedge-tailed (a.) Having a tail which has the middle pair of feathers longest, the rest successively and decidedly shorter, and all more or less attenuate; -- said of certain birds. See Illust. of Wood hoopoe, under Wood..
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