Attenuate meaning

Adjective: attenuate

Pronunciation: (u’ten-yoo-ut)

Attenuate meaning: Reduced in strength

Synonyms: attenuated, faded, weakened, enervated

Verb: attenuate

Attenuate meaning:

• (chemistry) weaken the consistency of a chemical substance
• Become weaker in strength, value or magnitude

Derived forms: attenuating, attenuates, attenuated

Quotations: Craig Richardson – There are three effects of attenuating private property rights that ultimately change individuals’ perceptions in a drastic way. First, there is the loss of trust in the government to enforce the law, which dramatically affects foreign investors’ views of the country. Second, the loss of property titles dramatically limits the amount of borrowing and entrepreneurial activity by disrupting the banking sector. Individuals no longer can offer banks their property as collateral for a loan. Third, there is the loss in the incentive to pass along entrepreneurial knowledge, and work initiatives are sharply stymied as well, since one’s investment is not retained.

Cynthia McMurray – Towards this goal, we are currently dissecting the molecular mechanism by which the aborted function of this repair enzyme attenuates its normal repair pathway. This is crucial information for understanding how to design new drugs or other interventions that help patients.

Mark Mills – He was desperate to control the voices, he had the sudden distorted perception that if he dropped bags of cement or shot at cars, it would attenuate the voices.

Cheryl Heide – We just don’t think the things being proposed are sufficient to attenuate the impacts. We want to talk about the plans, go over our concerns. Can we do some things here that will allow you to move forward with your goals and not disturb the natural resources?

Eugene Ionesco – Realism, whether it be socialist or not, falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it and falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions: love, death, astonishment. It presents man in a reduced and estranged perspective. Truth is in our dreams, in the imagination.

Sample sentences:

1. Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, shrivel them up like old apples and make them as so many anatomies.
2. The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people’s skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives.
3. The most important part of our lives – our sensations, emotions, desires, and aspirations takes place in a universe of illusions which science can attenuate or destroy, but which it is powerless to enrich.
4. Could you please attenuate the cacophony out here?
5. We have been listening to the attenuate tones of an old recording.
6. Our research helped greatly in producing active immunity by the attenuated virus.
7. On every night of the year there are a great number of these radiant in action, but the large majority represent much attenuated showers.
8. The victims of gender discrimination and race often suffer attenuated opportunities and aspirations.
9. The painters always love various times of day in which the colors are attenuated by a somewhat foggy veil.
10. The movie was very boring and irritating with its attenuated plot and unnecessary characters.