attenuate 的 3 个定义
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.
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.
- weakened; diminishing.
- Botany. tapering gradually to a narrow extremity.
attenuate 近义词
weaken
更多attenuate例句
- 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.