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Attenuate   Listen
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Attenuate  v. i.  To become thin, slender, or fine; to grow less; to lessen. "The attention attenuates as its sphere contracts."





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"Attenuate" Quotes from Famous Books



... permitted between many patients of this character. In the former case it is possible by a judicious treatment, as it were by an antiphlegistic regimen, and by a healthy spiritual atmosphere, to ward off the violence of the paroxysms; and if not entirely to conquer the exciting cause of the disease, to attenuate it to such a degree that it shall be almost innocuous. But in the latter case we must despair of every other means of cure, except that which may proceed from some internal beneficent operation of Nature. For the evil is attended with more alarming symptoms, and is more fatal in its ...
— The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: - Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English, Volume 5. • Various
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... the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, shrivel them up like old apples, make ...
— Familiar Quotations • John Bartlett
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Words linked to "Attenuate" :   chemistry, faded, rarefy, refine, attenuation, weaken, chemical science


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