Uttal

    • IPA: /əˈtɛn.juː.eɪt/

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Definitioner

Verb

  1. (transitive) To reduce in size, force, value, amount, or degree.
  2. (transitive) To make thinner, as by physically reshaping, starving, or decaying.
  3. (transitive) To weaken.
  4. (transitive) To rarefy.
  5. (transitive, medicine) To reduce the virulence of a bacteria or virus.
  6. (transitive, electronics) To reduce the amplitude of an electrical signal.

Adjektiv

  1. (botany, of leaves) Gradually tapering into a petiole-like extension toward the base.

Exempel

  • A manor-house clock from the far depths of shadow struck the hour, one, in a small, attenuated tone.
  • Clumps of attenuated turkeys were suspended here and there.
  • Lovell, wan and hollow-eyed, his arm in a sling, his once burly frame gaunt and attenuated with disease, nodded.
  • The attention attenuates as its sphere contracts.
  • We may reject and reject till we attenuate history into sapless meagreness.
  • "It speedily became apparent that the entire strangeness of our circumstances and surroundings—great loss of weight, attenuated but highly oxygenated air, consequent exaggeration of the results of muscular effort, rapid development of weird plants from obscure spores, lurid sky—was exciting my companion unduly."

Böjningsformer

PerfektparticipattenuatedImperfektattenuated
PresensparticipattenuatingKomparativmore attenuate
Superlativmost attenuateTredje person singular indicativ presensattenuates
Tredje person singular indicativ presensattenuateth

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