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attenuated

adjective

  1. rarefy
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Wiktionary

adj

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

    attenuated power

    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.

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

    Near-synonym: nonreplicating (often synonymous)

    the live attenuated type of vaccines

  3. Long and tapering (especially of leaves)

verb

  1. simple past and past participle of attenuate