Word Meanings - ATTENUATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act or process of making slender, or the state of being slender; emaciation. 2. The act of attenuating; the act of making thin or less dense, or of rarefying, as fluids or gases. 3. The process of weakening in intensity; diminution

Additional info about word: ATTENUATION

1. The act or process of making slender, or the state of being slender; emaciation. 2. The act of attenuating; the act of making thin or less dense, or of rarefying, as fluids or gases. 3. The process of weakening in intensity; diminution of virulence; as, the attenuation of virus.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ATTENUATION)

• Emaciation
• Leanness
• attenuation
• wasting

Related words: (words related to ATTENUATION)

• ATTENUATION
  1. The act or process of making slender, or the state of being slender; emaciation. 2. The act of attenuating; the act of making thin or less dense, or of rarefying, as fluids or gases. 3. The process of weakening in intensity; diminution
• WASTING
  Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune. Wasting palsy , progressive muscular atrophy. See under Progressive.
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• WAST
  The second person singular of the verb be, in the indicative mood, imperfect tense; -- now used only in solemn or poetical style. See Was.
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• WASTEBOARD
  See 3
• WASTAGE
  Loss by use, decay, evaporation, leakage, or the like; waste.
• WASTE
  the kindred German word; cf. OHG. wuosti, G. wüst, OS. w, D. woest, 1. Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless. The dismal situation waste and wild. Milton. His heart became appalled as he gazed forward into
• WASTEFUL
  1. Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as; wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses. 2. Expending, or tending to expend, property, or that which is valuable, in a needless or useless manner; lavish; prodigal; as, a wasteful
• LEANNESS
  The condition or quality of being lean.
• WASTREL
  1. Any waste thing or substance; as: Waste land or common land. Carew. A profligate. A neglected child; a street Arab. 2. Anything cast away as bad or useless, as imperfect bricks, china, etc.
• WASTER
  1. One who, or that which, wastes; one who squanders; one who consumes or expends extravagantly; a spendthrift; a prodigal. He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster. Prov. xviii. 9. Sconces are great wasters
• WASTEWEIR
  An overfall, or weir, for the escape, or overflow, of superfluous water from a canal, reservoir, pond, or the like.
• WASTEBOOK
  A book in which rough entries of transactions are made, previous to their being carried into the journal.
• WASTOR
  A waster; a thief. Chaucer. Southey.
• WASTOREL
  See WASTREL
• EMACIATION
  1. The act of making very lean. 2. The state of being emaciated or reduced to excessive leanness; an excessively lean condition.
• WASTENESS
  1. The quality or state of being waste; a desolate state or condition; desolation. A day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness. Zeph. i. 15. 2. That which is waste; a desert; a waste. Through woods and wasteness wide him daily sought.
• WASTEBASKET
  A basket used in offices, libraries, etc., as a receptacle for waste paper.
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• CLEANNESS
  1. The state or quality of being clean. 2. Purity of life or language; freedom from licentious courses. Chaucer.
• SWASTIKA; SWASTICA
  A symbol or ornament in the form of a Greek cross with the ends of the arms at right angles all in the same direction, and each prolonged to the height of the parallel arm of the cross. A great many modified forms exist, ogee and volute as well
• FOREWASTE
  See GASCOIGNE
• FORWASTE
  To desolate or lay waste utterly. Spenser.