dilute

dilute
    adj 1: reduced in strength or concentration or quality or
           purity; "diluted alcohol"; "a dilute solution"; "dilute
           acetic acid" [syn: {diluted}, {dilute}] [ant:
           {undiluted}]
    v 1: lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture;
         "cut bourbon" [syn: {dilute}, {thin}, {thin out}, {reduce},
         {cut}]
    2: corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or
       inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients
       with inferior ones; "adulterate liquor" [syn: {load},
       {adulterate}, {stretch}, {dilute}, {debase}]
    

Dilute \Di*lute"\, v. i.
   To become attenuated, thin, or weak; as, it dilutes easily.
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Dilute \Di*lute"\, a. [L. dilutus, p. p.]
   Diluted; thin; weak.
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         A dilute and waterish exposition.        --Hopkins.
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Dilute \Di*lute"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Diluted}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Diluting}.] [L. dilutus, p. p. of diluere to wash away,
   dilute; di- = dis- + luere, equiv. to lavare to wash, lave.
   See {Lave}, and cf. {Deluge}.]
   1. To make thinner or more liquid by admixture with
      something; to thin and dissolve by mixing.
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            Mix their watery store.
            With the chyle's current, and dilute it more.
                                                  --Blackmore.
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   2. To diminish the strength, flavor, color, etc., of, by
      mixing; to reduce, especially by the addition of water; to
      temper; to attenuate; to weaken.
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            Lest these colors should be diluted and weakened by
            the mixture of any adventitious light. --Sir I.
                                                  Newton.
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71 Moby Thesaurus words for "dilute":
      abate, adulterate, adulterated, alleviate, alter, attenuate,
      baptize, bastardize, bate, blow off, cast forth, clear away,
      contaminate, corrupt, cut, debase, decrease, denaturalize,
      denature, diluted, diminish, dispel, dissipate, dissolve, doctor,
      doctor up, drive away, ease, emacerate, emaciate, etherealize,
      evaporate, expand, extenuate, fortify, impaired, impoverished,
      irrigate, lace, lessen, liquefy, mitigate, moderate, modify,
      pollute, qualify, rarefy, reduce, reduced, remit, slacken,
      sophisticated, spike, subtilize, tamper with, temper, thicken,
      thin, thin away, thin down, thin out, volatilize, washy, water,
      water down, watered-down, waterish, watery, weak, weaken,
      weakened