attenuated
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[edit]Verb
[edit]attenuated
- simple past and past participle of attenuate
Adjective
[edit]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.
- 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.
- (biology, medicine, of pathogens) Weakened, usually in a way that includes nonreplicating status.
- Antonyms: nonlive, killed
- Near-synonym: nonreplicating (often synonymous)
- the live attenuated type of vaccines
- (botany) Long and tapering (especially of leaves)