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attenuate

C2 verb
us /əˈten.jʉˌæɪt/

attenuate /əˈtɛn.juˌeɪt/ nghĩa là làm giảm, giảm bớt

Các nghĩa

  1. làm giảm, giảm bớt

    To reduce in size, force, value, amount, or degree.

    transitive

    A manor-house clock from the far depths of shadow struck the hour, one, in a small, attenuated tone.

  2. làm mỏng đi, làm gầy đi

    To make thinner, as by physically reshaping, starving, or decaying.

    transitive

    Clumps of attenuated turkeys were suspended here and there.

    Lovell, wan and hollow-eyed, his arm in a sling, his once burly frame gaunt and attenuated with disease, nodded.

  3. trở nên mỏng, trở nên yếu đi

    To become thin or fine; to grow less.

    intransitive

  4. làm suy yếu

    To weaken.

    transitive

    We may reject and reject till we attenuate history into sapless meagreness.

  5. làm loãng, làm hiếm

    To rarefy.

    transitive

  6. làm giảm độc lực

    To reduce the virulence of a bacterium or virus.

    transitive

+ 2 nghĩa khác

  1. làm suy giảm biên độ

    To reduce the amplitude of an electrical, radio, or optical signal.

    transitive

  2. trở nên loãng (bia)

    Of a beer, to become less dense as a result of the conversion of sugar to alcohol.

    A beer which does not attenuate to the expected level in fermentation will have more residual sugar and thus be sweeter and heavier-bodied.

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