attenuated
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[edit] English
[edit] Verb
attenuated
- Simple past tense and past participle of attenuate.
[edit] Adjective
attenuated (comparative more attenuated, superlative most attenuated)
- 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.
- 1835, William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan, Harper, Chapter XI, page 140:
- (botany) Long and tapering (especially of leaves)
