Crossword-Solution: ATTENUATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| 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. |
| 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. |
| Attenuate | v. t. | To lessen the amount, force, or value of; to make less complex; to weaken. |
| Attenuate | v. i. | To become thin, slender, or fine; to grow less; to lessen. |
| Attenuate | a. | Alt. of Attenuated |
We have 44 clues for the answer “ATTENUATE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Weaken in force | 1 answer |
| Make more slender | 1 answer |
| wiredraw | 2 answers |
| Make weaker | 2 answers |
| Lessen in strength, force, or purity | 2 answers |
| Become thin. | 2 answers |
| Thin down. | 3 answers |
| rarefy | 6 answers |
| MAKE slender | 7 answers |
| LESSEN solubility of | 7 answers |
| MAKE thin | 8 answers |
| slenderise | 9 answers |
| Slenderize. | 9 answers |
| Thin out | 10 answers |
| Water (down) | 11 answers |
| enfeeble | 16 answers |
| Debilitate | 16 answers |
| Dilute | 18 answers |
| Lighten | 26 answers |
| Starve | 31 answers |
| Condense | 31 answers |
| bate | 34 answers |
| Shorten | 35 answers |
| MAKE lean | 38 answers |
| Under-mine | 39 answers |
| Cripple | 39 answers |
| Cut Back | 43 answers |
| Adulterate | 44 answers |
| Shrink | 48 answers |
| Sap | 51 answers |
| Abate | 51 answers |
| Go Back | 51 answers |
| Dwindle | 52 answers |
| Diminish | 59 answers |
| Slim __ | 64 answers |
| Lessen | 64 answers |
| Refine | 64 answers |
| Weaken | 65 answers |
| Disable | 67 answers |
| Pursue | 69 answers |
| Reduce | 72 answers |
| Ebb | 74 answers |
| Radiate | 75 answers |
| Project | 99 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERAET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ATTENUATE (5)
Moreover, it is to his constant glory that, living at a time that preferred as well to attenuate the English tongue as to degrade the profession of the highway, he not only rode abroad with a fearless courtesy, but handled his own language with the force and spirit of an earlier age.
The idea is too exquisitely attenuate, as are those of the whole body-guard of the heart of Egoism, and will slip through you unless you shall have made a study of the gross of volumes of the first and second sections of The Book, and that will take you up to senility; or you must make a personal entry into the pages, perchance; or an escape out of them.
Evidently, if there was any desire to attenuate or to prevent the conflict it would be through the first or the last of these two policies.
The hour is late,” she added more gently, as if desiring to attenuate the harshness of her last words.
How he contrived to attenuate and disperse the rather tender personalities he had opened up with the new Avice’s mother, Pierston never exactly defined.
Quotes with ATTENUATE (2)
And why don't you write? Write! Writing is for you, you are for you; your body is yours, take it. I know why you haven't written. (And why I didn't write before the age of twenty-seven.) Because writing is at once too high, too great for you, it's reserved for the great-that is for "great men"; and it's "silly." Besides, you've written a little, but in secret. And it wasn't good, because it was in secret, and because you punished yourself for writing, because you didn't go al…
But years and miles away from home could never attenuate the city's hold on my identity, and the more I explored places and people far from Hampton, the more my status as one of its daughters came to mean to me.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, WP.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1949–2004).