attenuated
Collocations
5ADJ.
grown, small, type-one
VERB + ATTENUATED
moistened, uses
ATTENUATED + NOUN
beer, person
PREP.
in, with
ADV.
only, quickly
Definitions
adj
Made, or become weak; subject to attenuation.
attenuated power
He had his tea and hot rolls in a morning, while we were battening upon our quarter of a penny loaf—our crug—moistened with attenuated small beer, in wooden piggins, smacking of the pitched leathern jack it was poured from.
Made, or become weak; subject to attenuation.
Near-synonym: nonreplicating (often synonymous)
the live attenuated type of vaccines
Long and tapering (especially of leaves)
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Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
5attenuated power
WiktionaryHe had his tea and hot rolls in a morning, while we were battening upon our quarter of a penny loaf—our crug—moistened with attenuated small beer, in wooden piggins, smacking of the pitched leathern j
WiktionaryShe had become spiritualized in mind, even as she had grown attenuated in person.
WiktionaryThe brightness of the sunlight is attenuated quickly as it passes through the water.
Tatoeba · #9032559The monovalent oral polio vaccine uses only the attenuated strain of type-one poliovirus and only immunizes against that strain of the disease.
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