adjective

• 1Having been reduced in force, effect, or value.

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  • ‘it appears likely that the courts will be given an attenuated role in the enforcement of these decisions’

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  weakened, reduced, lessened, decreased, diminished, impaired, enervated

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  1. 1.1(of a signal, electric current, or other oscillation) reduced in amplitude.
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     • ‘weak or attenuated signals’
  2. 1.2(of a pathogenic organism) reduced in virulence, especially for use as a vaccine.
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     • ‘attenuated strains of rabies virus’
• 2Thin or reduced in thickness.

  ‘his attenuated fingers’

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  • ‘Giacometti's attenuated figures of the human form’

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  thin, slender, slim, skinny, spindly, bony, gaunt, skeletal

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