extenuar — meaning in English

English meaning

• attenuate verb To reduce in size, force, value, amount, or degree.
• dim adjective Giving off or showing very little light; not bright.
• exhaust verb To use up something completely, or to wear someone out.
• extenuate adj Of a person: emaciated, wasted, weakened; of the body or part of it: atrophied, shrunken, withered.

Senses

extenuar is used for these senses in English:

• attenuate (transitive) To weaken.
• dim (transitive) To make something less bright.
• exhaust (transitive) To tire out; to wear out; to cause to be without any energy.
• extenuate To make (something) less dense, or thinner; also, to lower the viscosity of (something).

attenuate — full definition

1. verb To reduce in size, force, value, amount, or degree.
2. verb To make thinner, as by physically reshaping, starving, or decaying.
3. verb To become thin or fine; to grow less.
4. verb To reduce the virulence of a bacterium or virus.

dim — full definition

1. adjective Giving off or showing very little light; not bright.
2. adjective Not very intelligent or quick-witted.
3. adjective Unclear, faint, or hard to make out.
4. verb To make something less bright, or to become less bright.

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