attenuated
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, Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia
- 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 piggings, smacking of the pitched leathern jack it was poured from.
- 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.
- 1823, Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia
- (botany) Long and tapering (especially of leaves)