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Example sentences for "attenuate"

Lexicographically close words:
attentions; attentiue; attentive; attentively; attentiveness; attenuated; attenuates; attenuating; attenuation; atter
  1. These aromatics likewise evacuate serum from the blood, promote its circulation, and attenuate the coagulations of chyle, lympha, and succus nervosus.

  2. By opening the pores, they extraordinarily discuss outward tumours, and attenuate the internal coagulation.

  3. Allowing they are diluting in health, their constant use may so attenuate the liquids as to destroy their natural force and tensity.

  4. And observe that St. John does not, in applying these semi-abstract words to God, attenuate in the slightest degree His personality.

  5. These are strongly-worded passages, and I have no wish to attenuate their significance.

  6. From certain facts and certain experiments he concluded that the reciprocal influence of microbes might be utilised to attenuate or to eliminate the noxious action of some of them.

  7. Thus, it was found possible to attenuate the virus by successive passages in certain lower apes, and yet, though attenuated for the chimpanzee, it did not confer upon him immunity against the active virus.

  8. Whether malice enters into it or not, this is an accident which has nothing to do with the essence of falsehood; it may aggravate or attenuate it, certainly, but it does not constitute it.

  9. As for the turtle-soupe, it is a good restorative and balsamic; but, I apprehend, will tend to thicken rather than attenuate the phlegm.

  10. Then, to attenuate the discourtesy of such a cry, Beauchene began to jest, and accepted the invitation for a later date when the warm weather should have arrived.

  11. Four to nine lines long; a line or so wide; attenuate upward; contorted.

  12. Equaling the number of the petals; attenuate into the short styles.

  13. With its two cells attenuate into the slender styles.

  14. Natural feminine eroticism, not artificially perverted, only shows itself openly in complete intimacy, and even here modesty and the æsthetic sense of woman correct and attenuate it.

  15. We can nearly always considerably attenuate too-frequent emissions, masturbation and perversions by suggestion, and often entirely cure their acquired forms.

  16. It is necessary, therefore, neither to admire nor to dislike the defects of the loved one, but to try and attenuate them by aid of integral love.

  17. All that can be done is to give both sexes an education which will elevate their social conscience and attenuate the evil influences exercised by personal sexual sentiments on social actions.

  18. Stiffer; leaves mostly broader and stricter; spikes thick and densely flowered, not attenuate at base, the upper one often sessile; perigynium larger.

  19. Achenes columnar, not attenuate upward when mature; panicle not virgate.

  20. Involucre globular; the imbricated scales coriaceous and appressed at base, attenuate to long stiff points with hooked tips.

  21. Capsule cylindrical-oblong, attenuate upward and bearing the slightly lobed sessile stigma, loculicidal, many-seeded.

  22. Without heart-shaped petioled leaves, the radical and lower all acute or attenuate at base; not glandular nor viscid, nor silky-canescent.

  23. Being in doubt as to the particular fact, I unconsciously imagined the general fact, and when man's imagination intervenes it is always to soften, to attenuate crudities which only nature is capable of.

  24. The wooden pier goes right across the canvas; all the wood piers are drawn, there is no attempt to hide or attenuate their regularity.

  25. Why should Manet attenuate when he could fill the interspaces with the soft lapping of such exquisite blue sea-water.

  26. The sympathies of Mr. Wratislaw are indeed very evident, but he has never attempted to slur over or to attenuate the arguments of the adversaries of Hus.

  27. In any form of the tail, it may through degeneration be attenuate or whip-like, a form called leptocercal.

  28. Phisalix has shown that the emanations from radium attenuate and then destroy the virulence of Cobra- and also of Viper-venom.

  29. The nomination of Rivers Wilson to the post of Egyptian Minister of Finance was so unprecedented an event that it required all the care of the Marquis of Salisbury, who had now succeeded Lord Derby, to attenuate its political importance.

  30. She slightly surprised the man by not striving to attenuate the import of the big and surcharged All: but her silence bore witness to his penetrative knowledge.

  31. Plato admits the analogy with reluctance, and seeks to attenuate it.

  32. But when, after laying down this general theory, he has gone a certain length in applying it to actual names, he proceeds to introduce qualifications which attenuate and explain it away.

  33. As to which their opinion I consider, that it would be much the shorter way to strip Peter utterly of every prerogative, than to attenuate the distinctions applied to him in Scripture to a sort of shadowy precedency.

  34. In the same way, as they become more familiar with the facts, the English will attenuate their hostility to "Germans.

  35. Young birds appear to acquire these attenuate primaries only after a complete moult.

  36. As he was able to intensify the virus by transmission, so he was able to attenuate it by gradual drying of the tissues that contained it.


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    Other words:
    abate; abbreviate; adulterate; adulterated; airy; alleviate; attentive; attenuate; attenuated; baptize; bate; blunt; boyish; consume; cramp; cripple; cut; dainty; damp; dampen; deaden; debilitate; delicate; dematerialize; diaphanous; dilute; diluted; diminish; disable; dispel; dissipate; dissolve; downy; dull; dwindle; ease; emaciate; enervate; enfeeble; ethereal; evaporate; exhaust; expand; extenuate; fade; filmy; fine; flimsy; fluffy; frail; fuzzy; gaseous; gauzy; girlish; gossamer; insubstantial; irrigate; light; lighten; macerate; misty; mitigate; papery; parch; pubescent; rare; rarefied; rarefy; rattle; reduce; refined; remit; satin; satiny; sear; shake; shrink; shrivel; silky; slacken; slender; slight; slim; slinky; small; smooth; spiritualize; subtile; subtle; tenuous; thin; thinned; threadlike; twiggy; undermine; unman; unnerve; unsubstantial; vague; vaporous; velvety; volatilize; waste; water; watery; weak; weaken; weazen; willowy; windy; wispy; wither; wizen