attenuate / verb əˈtɛn yuˌeɪt; adjective əˈtɛn yu ɪt, -ˌeɪt /

⚽高中词汇衰减递减衰减的渐进式

attenuate3 个定义

v. 有主动词 verb

at·ten·u·at·ed, at·ten·u·at·ing.

  1. to weaken or reduce in force, intensity, effect, quantity, or value: to attenuate desire.
  2. to make thin; make slender or fine.
  3. Bacteriology, Immunology. to render less virulent, as a strain of pathogenic virus or bacterium.
  4. Electronics. to decrease the amplitude of: A splitter will attenuate your output.
v. 无主动词 verb

at·ten·u·at·ed, at·ten·u·at·ing.

  1. to become thin, fine, or weak; lessen: Over the years, my anger at my family attenuated and I was able to acknowledge the strengths they had given me.
adj. 形容词 adjective
  1. weakened; diminishing.
  2. Botany. tapering gradually to a narrow extremity.

attenuate 近义词

v. 动词 verb

weaken

更多attenuate例句

  1. RNA vaccines were developed as an alternative to the standard method of vaccination using attenuated or inactivated microorganisms.
  2. By 1885, Pasteur would take his ideas one step further, injecting slurried concoctions containing attenuated rabies virus into the stomach of a young boy to save the boy’s life, and inventing the first lab-made vaccine.
  3. Moreover, the chimera was attenuated in mice as compared to the parental mouse-adapted virus, so this would be considered a loss of function.
  4. The Department of Education did this broad survey on prevention programs attempting to attenuate youth substance and crime and aspects like that.
  5. The future role of the national agencies will be attenuated—becoming more akin to an airport rather than to an airline.
  6. Israeli retaliation of some kind is probably inevitable, but American influence can do much to attenuate the damage it causes.
  7. Her flowing dress of white brocade made no attempt to compress, to sustain or to attenuate.
  8. But before she could attenuate in any way the crudity of her collapse he gave an impatient jerk which took him to the window.
  9. The next day he added: "I am still sore vexed about Sherman, but Chenery did his best to attenuate the mischief."
  10. Nevertheless, I had risen to make this answer, the ill grace of which I strove to attenuate by the courteousness of my attitude.
  11. Involucre globular; the imbricated scales coriaceous and appressed at base, attenuate to long stiff points with hooked tips.