attenuated

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of attenuate

comparative more attenuated · superlative most attenuated

1. Made, or become weak; subject to attenuation.

   attenuated power

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   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.

   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

   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

   To conclude otherwise requires accepting an attenuated fiction that commingling funds in an account, even if done decades earlier, means the account today still contains funds attributable to the sale of expropriated property.

   2025, Sonia Sotomayor (writing for a unanimous Supreme Court of the United States), Opinion of the Court in Republic of Hungary et al. v. Simon et al., № 23—867, 2025-02-21

   Antonyms: unattenuated, abject, frightful, absolute, prize, clean, arrant, categoric

   1. biologyWeakened, usually in a way that includes nonreplicating status.

      the live attenuated type of vaccines

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      Near-synonym: nonreplicating (often synonymous)

      Synonyms: nonreplicating · Antonyms: unattenuated, abject, frightful, absolute, prize, clean, arrant, categoric

2. biologyLong and tapering (especially of leaves)