attenuates
verb
Meaning
- To reduce in size, force, value, amount, or degree.
- To make thinner, as by physically reshaping, starving, or decaying.
- To become thin or fine; to grow less.
- To weaken.
- To rarefy.
- To reduce the virulence of a bacterium or virus.
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