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attenuate

/verb uh-ten-yoo-eyt; adjective uh-ten-yoo-it, -eyt/US // verb əˈtɛn yuˌeɪt; adjective əˈtɛn yu ɪt, -ˌeɪt //

衰减,递减,衰减的,渐进式

Related Words

debilitate衰弱,削弱,衰弱的,弱化constrict压迫,缢死,缢杀,拘束vitiate废止,使之无效,使之失效,使之丧失活力mitigate缓解,减轻,减轻影响,缓和extenuate天真无邪,天真无邪的,全心全意,全心全意的cripple跛脚,跛子,跛脚的,残废lessen减轻,减少,减轻了,减低deflate放气,平放,平减,平移dissipate涣散,消散,放浪形骸,放浪enfeeble衰弱,衰弱的,削弱,减弱disable禁用,停用,丧失功能,停用功能contract合同,签约,契约,契约书abate消减,削减,缩减,减轻sap汁液,汁水,肥皂水,肥皂shrink缩水,缩减,缩小,萎缩undermine损害,破坏,颠覆,削弱thin薄,单薄,薄薄的,细

Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    at·ten·u·at·ed, at·ten·u·at·ing.

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

    at·ten·u·at·ed, at·ten·u·at·ing.

    • : 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. 1
    • : weakened; diminishing.
    • : Botany. tapering gradually to a narrow extremity.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbweaken
Forms: attenuated
Synonyms
constrict压迫,缢死,缢杀,拘束debilitate衰弱,削弱,衰弱的,弱化vitiate废止,使之无效,使之失效,使之丧失活力abate消减,削减,缩减,减轻contract合同,签约,契约,契约书cripple跛脚,跛子,跛脚的,残废deflate放气,平放,平减,平移disable禁用,停用,丧失功能,停用功能dissipate涣散,消散,放浪形骸,放浪enfeeble衰弱,衰弱的,削弱,减弱extenuate天真无邪,天真无邪的,全心全意,全心全意的lessen减轻,减少,减轻了,减低mitigate缓解,减轻,减轻影响,缓和sap汁液,汁水,肥皂水,肥皂shrink缩水,缩减,缩小,萎缩thin薄,单薄,薄薄的,细undermine损害,破坏,颠覆,削弱

Examples

  • RNA vaccines were developed as an alternative to the standard method of vaccination using attenuated or inactivated microorganisms.

  • 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.

  • Moreover, the chimera was attenuated in mice as compared to the parental mouse-adapted virus, so this would be considered a loss of function.

  • The Department of Education did this broad survey on prevention programs attempting to attenuate youth substance and crime and aspects like that.

  • The future role of the national agencies will be attenuated—becoming more akin to an airport rather than to an airline.

  • Israeli retaliation of some kind is probably inevitable, but American influence can do much to attenuate the damage it causes.

  • Her flowing dress of white brocade made no attempt to compress, to sustain or to attenuate.

  • But before she could attenuate in any way the crudity of her collapse he gave an impatient jerk which took him to the window.

  • The next day he added: "I am still sore vexed about Sherman, but Chenery did his best to attenuate the mischief."

  • Nevertheless, I had risen to make this answer, the ill grace of which I strove to attenuate by the courteousness of my attitude.

  • Involucre globular; the imbricated scales coriaceous and appressed at base, attenuate to long stiff points with hooked tips.

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