attenuated

English

Verb

attenuated

1. simple past and past participle of attenuate

Adjective

attenuated (comparative more attenuated, superlative most attenuated)

1. Made, or become weak; subject to attenuation.
   • (Can we date this quote?), 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.

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