attenuated

attenuated
    adj 1: of an electrical signal; reduced in amplitude with little
           or no distortion
    2: reduced in strength; "the faded tones of an old recording"
       [syn: {attenuate}, {attenuated}, {faded}, {weakened}]
    

Attenuate \At*ten"u*ate\, Attenuated \At*ten"u*a`ted\, a. [L.
   attenuatus, p. p.]
   1. Made thin or slender.
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   2. Made thin or less viscid; rarefied. --Bacon.
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Attenuate \At*ten"u*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Attenuated}; p.
   pr. & vb. n. {Attenuating}.] [L. attenuatus, p. p. of
   attenuare; ad + tenuare to make thin, tenuis thin. See
   {Thin}.]
   1. To make thin or slender, as by mechanical or chemical
      action upon inanimate objects, or by the effects of
      starvation, disease, etc., upon living bodies.
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   2. To make thin or less consistent; to render less viscid or
      dense; to rarefy. Specifically: To subtilize, as the
      humors of the body, or to break them into finer parts.
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   3. To lessen the amount, force, or value of; to make less
      complex; to weaken.
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            To undersell our rivals . . . has led the
            manufacturer to . . . attenuate his processes, in
            the allotment of tasks, to an extreme point. --I.
                                                  Taylor.
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            We may reject and reject till we attenuate history
            into sapless meagerness.              --Sir F.
                                                  Palgrave.
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decreased \decreased\ adj.
   made less in size or amount or degree. Opposite of
   {increased}. [Narrower terms: {attenuate, attenuated, faded,
   weakened}; {belittled, diminished, small}; {cut, cut-rate};
   {diminished, lessened}; {minimized}; {remittent};
   {attenuated}]

   Syn: reduced.
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145 Moby Thesaurus words for "attenuated":
      Sanforized, abated, ablated, adulterated, airy, attenuate, bated,
      belittled, boyish, cadaverous, consumed, contracted, corky,
      corpselike, curtailed, cut, dainty, decreased, deflated, delicate,
      diaphanous, dilute, diluted, diminished, dissipated, downy,
      dried-up, dropped, emacerated, emaciate, emaciated, eroded,
      ethereal, fallen, filmy, fine, fine-drawn, fine-grained, finespun,
      flimsy, fluffy, frail, fuzzy, gaseous, gauzy, girlish, gossamer,
      gossamery, gracile, haggard, hollow-eyed, insubstantial, jejune,
      lacy, less, lesser, light, lower, lowered, marantic, marasmic,
      miniaturized, misty, papery, parched, peaked, peaky, pinched, poor,
      preshrunk, pubescent, puny, rare, rarefied, reduced, refined,
      retrenched, satin, satiny, scaled-down, sear, shorn, shorter,
      shriveled, shriveled up, shrunk, shrunken, silky, skeletal,
      slender, slenderish, slight, slight-made, slim, slimmish, slinky,
      small, smaller, smooth, starved, starveling, subtile, subtle,
      svelte, sylphlike, tabetic, tabid, tenuous, thin, thin-bodied,
      thin-set, thin-spun, thinned, thinned-out, thinnish, threadlike,
      uncompact, uncompressed, underfed, undernourished, unsubstantial,
      vague, vaporous, velutinous, velvety, wasp-waisted, wasted,
      wasted away, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, weakened,
      weazened, weazeny, willowy, windy, wiredrawn, wispy, withered,
      wizen, wizen-faced, wizened, worn, wraithlike