attenuate
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- v weaken the consistency of (a chemical substance)
- v become weaker, in strength, value, or magnitude
- s reduced in strength
- But can they also attenuate relationships? Can Facebook be a way to avoid dealing with people face to face? Gill's answer has a whiff of intergenerational snobbism.
- To protect the transplants until they take hold, conservationists have jury-rigged a protective barrier of old Air Force parachutes in the water to absorb and attenuate the force .
- The news media, the advertising agencies, the Governmenteven President Nixon himselfhave all helped flatten and attenuate the English tongue.