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simple past and past participle of attenuateform-ofparticiplepast
attenuated
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Level C2
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Made, or become weak; subject to attenuation.
- attenuated power
- To conclude otherwise requires accepting an attenuated fiction that commingling funds in an account, even if done decades earlier, means the account today still contains funds attributable to the sale of expropriated property.
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Made, or become weak; subject to attenuation.; Weakened, usually in a way that includes nonreplicating status.
- Near-synonym: nonreplicating (often synonymous)
- the live attenuated type of vaccines
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Long and tapering (especially of leaves)