attenuate: Meaning and Definition of

at•ten•u•ate

1. to weaken or reduce in force, intensity, effect, quantity, or value: to attenuate desire.
2. to make thin; make slender or fine.
3. to render less virulent, as a strain of pathogenic virus or bacterium.
4. to decrease the amplitude of (an electronic signal).

1. to become thin or fine; lessen.

1. weakened; diminishing.
2. tapering gradually to a narrow extremity.