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To lessen the amount, force, or value of; to make less complex; to weaken.
To become thin, slender, or fine; to grow less; to lessen.
Alt. of Attenuated
of Attenuate
Made thin or slender.
Made thin or less viscid; rarefied.
of Attenuate
The act or process of making slender, or the state of being slender; emaciation.
The act of attenuating; the act of making thin or less dense, or of rarefying, as fluids or gases.
The process of weakening in intensity; diminution of virulence; as, the attenuation of virus.
Poison; venom; corrupt matter from a sore.
A spider.
A peevish, ill-natured person.
To fill up with alluvial earth.
The act of filling up with earth, or of forming land with alluvial earth.
Witness; testimony; attestation.
To call to witness; to invoke.
To give proof of; to manifest; as, the ruins of Palmyra attest its ancient magnificence.
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.
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.