attenuated

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[edit] Verb

attenuated

1. Simple past tense and past participle of attenuate.

[edit] Adjective

attenuated (comparative more attenuated, superlative most attenuated)

1. Made, or become weak; subject to attenuation
   • 1835, William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan, Harper, Chapter XI, page 140:

     She had become spiritualized in mind, even as she had grown attenuated in person.

2. (botany) Long and tapering (especially of leaves)