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English
Verb
attenuated
- simple past and past participle of attenuate
Adjective
attenuated (comparative more attenuated, superlative most attenuated)
- Made, or become weak; subject to attenuation.
1823, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], “Christ’s Hospital Five and Thirty Years Ago”, in Elia. Essays which have Appeared under that Signature in The London Magazine, London: [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, , →OCLC, page 28:He had his tea and hot rolls in a morning, while we were battening upon our quarter of a penny loaf—our crug—moistened with attenuated small beer, in wooden piggins, smacking of the pitched leathern jack it was poured from.
- (botany) Long and tapering (especially of leaves)
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