attenuated

adj 3

Definitions

adj

1

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.

2

Made, or become weak; subject to attenuation.

Near-synonym: nonreplicating (often synonymous)

the live attenuated type of vaccines

3

Long and tapering (especially of leaves)

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