Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to attenuate
Participle: attenuated
Gerund: attenuating
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | attenuate |
| you | attenuate |
| he;she;it | attenuates |
| we | attenuate |
| you | attenuate |
| they | attenuate |
Perfect
| I | have attenuated |
| you | have attenuated |
| he;she;it | has attenuated |
| we | have attenuated |
| you | have attenuated |
| they | have attenuated |
Past
| I | attenuated |
| you | attenuated |
| he;she;it | attenuated |
| we | attenuated |
| you | attenuated |
| they | attenuated |
Pluperfect
| I | had attenuated |
| you | had attenuated |
| he;she;it | had attenuated |
| we | had attenuated |
| you | had attenuated |
| they | had attenuated |
Future
| I | will attenuate |
| you | will attenuate |
| he;she;it | will attenuate |
| we | will attenuate |
| you | will attenuate |
| they | will attenuate |
Future Perfect
| I | will have attenuated |
| you | will have attenuated |
| he;she;it | will have attenuated |
| we | will have attenuated |
| you | will have attenuated |
| they | will have attenuated |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | attenuate |
| you | attenuate |
| he;she;it | attenuate |
| we | attenuate |
| you | attenuate |
| they | attenuate |
Perfect
| I | have attenuated |
| you | have attenuated |
| he;she;it | have attenuated |
| we | have attenuated |
| you | have attenuated |
| they | have attenuated |
Imperfect
| I | attenuated |
| you | attenuated |
| he;she;it | attenuated |
| we | attenuated |
| you | attenuated |
| they | attenuated |
Pluperfect
| I | had attenuated |
| you | had attenuated |
| he;she;it | had attenuated |
| we | had attenuated |
| you | had attenuated |
| they | had attenuated |
Conditional
Present
| I | would attenuate |
| you | would attenuate |
| he;she;it | would attenuate |
| we | would attenuate |
| you | would attenuate |
| they | would attenuate |
Perfect
| I | would have attenuated |
| you | would have attenuated |
| he;she;it | would have attenuated |
| we | would have attenuated |
| you | would have attenuated |
| they | would have attenuated |
Imperative
| you | attenuate |
| we | Let's attenuate |
| you | attenuate |
Verbs conjugated like 'attenuate'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'attenuate'
antennate,
attediate,
atterrate,
deattenuate,
extenuate,
tenuate,
accentuate,
actuate,
adequate,
alienate,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1530, from L. attenuatus, pp. of attenuare "to make thin," from ad- "to" + tenuare "make thin," from tenuis "thin" (see tenet).
2. The verb is first attested in 1530, the adjective in 1626; borrowed from Latin attenuātus, the perfect passive participle of attenuō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + tenuo (“to make thin”), itself from tenuis (“thin”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).
Sample Sentences
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A manor-house clock from the far depths of shadow struck the hour, one, in a small, attenuated tone. [1874, Thomas Hardy, chapter 40, in Far From the Madding Crowd:]
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Clumps of attenuated turkeys were suspended here and there. [1899, Stephen Crane, chapter 4, in His New Mittens:]
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Lovell, wan and hollow-eyed, his arm in a sling, his once burly frame gaunt and attenuated with disease, nodded. [1906, E. Phillips Oppenheim, chapter 1, in The Malefactor:]
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We may reject and reject till we attenuate history into sapless meagreness. [1851, Sir Francis Palgrave, chapter IV, in The History of Normandy and of England:]
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"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." [1900 December – 1901 August, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter 23, in The First Men in the Moon, London: George Newnes, […], published 1901, →OCLC:]
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A beer which does not attenuate to the expected level in fermentation will have more residual sugar and thus be sweeter and heavier-bodied. [2009 July–August, John Palmer, “Attenuation: Advanced Brewing”, in Brew Your Own, archived from the original on 06 Oct 2013:]