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.