English English Dictionary

English English Dictionary

The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg

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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

Attenuated (imp. & p. p.)

of Attenuate

Attenuated (a.)

Made thin or slender.

Attenuated (a.)

Made thin or less viscid; rarefied.

Attenuating (p. pr. & vb. n.)

of Attenuate

Attenuation (n.)

The act or process of making slender, or the state of being slender; emaciation.

Attenuation (n.)

The act of attenuating; the act of making thin or less dense, or of rarefying, as fluids or gases.

Attenuation (n.)

The process of weakening in intensity; diminution of virulence; as, the attenuation of virus.

Atter (n.)

Poison; venom; corrupt matter from a sore.

Attercop (n.)

A spider.

Attercop (n.)

A peevish, ill-natured person.

Atterrate (v. t.)

To fill up with alluvial earth.

Atterration (n.)

The act of filling up with earth, or of forming land with alluvial earth.

Attest (n.)

Witness; testimony; attestation.

Attest (v. t.)

To call to witness; to invoke.

Attest (v. t.)

To give proof of; to manifest; as, the ruins of Palmyra attest its ancient magnificence.

Attest (v. t.)

To bear witness to; to certify; to affirm to be true or genuine; as, to attest the truth of a writing, a copy of record.

Attestation (n.)

The act of attesting; testimony; witness; a solemn or official declaration, verbal or written, in support of a fact; evidence. The truth appears from the attestation of witnesses, or of the proper officer. The subscription of a name to a writing as a witness, is an attestation.