All attenuate synonyms
at·ten·u·ate
A a verb attenuate
- debilitate — If you are debilitated by something such as an illness, it causes your body or mind to become gradually weaker.
- constrict — If a part of your body, especially your throat, is constricted or if it constricts, something causes it to become narrower.
- vitiate — to impair the quality of; make faulty; spoil.
- mitigate — to lessen in force or intensity, as wrath, grief, harshness, or pain; moderate.
- cripple — A person with a physical disability or a serious permanent injury is sometimes referred to as a cripple.
- lessen — to become less.
- deflate — If you deflate someone or something, you take away their confidence or make them seem less important.
- dissipate — to scatter in various directions; disperse; dispel.
- disable — make not work
- contract — A contract is a legal agreement, usually between two companies or between an employer and employee, which involves doing work for a stated sum of money.
- abate — If something bad or undesirable abates, it becomes much less strong or severe.
- sap — Fortification. a deep, narrow trench constructed so as to form an approach to a besieged place or an enemy's position.
- shrink — to draw back, as in retreat or avoidance: to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.
- undermine — to injure or destroy by insidious activity or imperceptible stages, sometimes tending toward a sudden dramatic effect.
- thin — having relatively little extent from one surface or side to the opposite; not thick: thin ice.
- weaken — to make weak or weaker.
- reduce — to bring down to a smaller extent, size, amount, number, etc.: to reduce one's weight by 10 pounds.
- decrease — When something decreases or when you decrease it, it becomes less in quantity, size, or intensity.
- diminish — to make or cause to seem smaller, less, less important, etc.; lessen; reduce.
- water down — a transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid, a compound of hydrogen and oxygen, H 2 O, freezing at 32°F or 0°C and boiling at 212°F or 100°C, that in a more or less impure state constitutes rain, oceans, lakes, rivers, etc.: it contains 11.188 percent hydrogen and 88.812 percent oxygen, by weight.
- take the edge off — If something takes the edge off a situation, usually an unpleasant one, it weakens its effect or intensity.
- temper — a particular state of mind or feelings.
- offset — something that counterbalances, counteracts, or compensates for something else; compensating equivalent.
- assuage — If you assuage an unpleasant feeling that someone has, you make them feel it less strongly.
- soothe — to tranquilize or calm, as a person or the feelings; relieve, comfort, or refresh: soothing someone's anger; to soothe someone with a hot drink.
- calm — A calm person does not show or feel any worry, anger, or excitement.
- dilute — to make (a liquid) thinner or weaker by the addition of water or the like.
- lighten — to become less severe, stringent, or harsh; ease up: Border inspections have lightened recently.
- rarefy — to make rare or rarer; make less dense: to rarefy a gas.
adjective attenuate
- weedy — full of or abounding in weeds.
- sticker — a person or thing that sticks.
- twig — style; fashion.
- tenuous — lacking a sound basis, as reasoning; unsubstantiated; weak: a tenuous argument.
- featherweight — a boxer or other contestant intermediate in weight between a bantamweight and a lightweight, especially a professional boxer weighing up to 126 pounds (57 kg).
- subtile — subtle.
- recherche — sought out with care.
- wafer-thin — very thin: a wafer-thin slice.
- pre-eminent — eminent above or before others; superior; surpassing: He is preeminent in his profession.
- slight — small in amount, degree, etc.: a slight increase; a slight odor.
- rare — Réseaux Associés pour la Recherche Européenne
- atrophied — exhibiting or affected with atrophy; wasted; withered; shriveled: an atrophied arm; an atrophied talent.
- reedy — full of reeds: a reedy marsh.
- skin and bones — a condition or state of extreme thinness, usually the result of malnutrition; emaciation: Anorexia had reduced her to skin and bones.
- flesh — the soft substance of a human or other animal body, consisting of muscle and fat.
- stilt — one of two poles, each with a support for the foot at some distance above the bottom end, enabling the wearer to walk with his or her feet above the ground.
- broomstick — A broomstick is an old-fashioned broom which has a bunch of small sticks at the end.
- unheard of — that was never heard of; unknown: an unheard-of artist.
- subtle — thin, tenuous, or rarefied, as a fluid or an odor.
- hairline — a very slender line.
- undernourished — not nourished with sufficient or proper food to maintain or promote health or normal growth.