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To make thinner by adding solvent to a solution, especially by adding water.transitive
- Mix their watery store / With the chyle's current, and dilute it more.
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To weaken, especially by adding a foreign substance.transitive
- For if these Colours be diluted and weakened by the Mixture of any adventitious light, the distance between the places of the Paper will not be so great.
- “Stay a little.” “Not another second: language and discussion dilute thought; I will say no more.”
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To cause the value of individual shares or the stake of a shareholder to decrease by increasing the total number of shares.transitive
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To become attenuated, thin, or weak.intransitive
- It dilutes easily.
dilute
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Level B2CET-6GREIELTS考研TOEFL
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Having a low concentration.
- Clean the panel with a dilute, neutral cleaner.
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Weak; reduced in strength by dilution; diluted.
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Of an animal: having a lighter-coloured coat than is usual.
- a dilute calico
- a cat with a dilute tortoiseshell coat
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An animal having a lighter-coloured coat than is usual.
- On average, blues and other dilutes have weaker coats and skin problems seem more prevalent in the dilutes.