ATTENUATE
- to lessen the amount, force, magnitude, or value of weaken.
- weaken (to make weak) [v ATTENUATED, ATTENUATES, ATTENUATING]
- Reduce the force, effect, or value of
- Reduce the amplitude of (a signal, electric current, or other oscillation)
- (of a signal, electric current, or other oscillation) Be reduced in amplitude
- Reduce the virulence of (a pathogenic organism or vaccine)
- Reduce in thickness; make thin
- to make thin; to reduce in value [v ATTENUATED, ATTENUATING, ATTENUATES]