- to weaken or reduce in force, intensity, effect, quantity, or value: to attenuate desire.
- to make thin; make slender or fine.
- to render less virulent, as a strain of pathogenic virus or bacterium.
- to decrease the amplitude of (an electronic signal): A splitter will attenuate your output.
- to become thin, fine, or weak; lessen: Over the years, my anger at my family attenuated and I was able to acknowledge the strengths they had given me.
- weakened; diminishing.
- tapering gradually to a narrow extremity.
- to weaken or become weak; reduce in size, strength, density, or value
- to make or become thin or fine; extend
- to make (a pathogenic bacterium, virus, etc) less virulent, as by culture in special media or exposure to heat
- diluted, weakened, slender, or reduced
- tapering gradually to a point
