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  • Something attenuated, a nervous caution, suggested itself in all his movements.†  (source)
  • At first Eragon took them to be falcons, but as they neared, he realized that the animals were almost twenty feet long, with attenuated tails and leathery wings.†  (source)
  • Fascinated by an immediate reality that came to be more fantastic than the vast universe of his imagination, he lost all interest in the alchemist's laboratory, put to rest the material that had become attenuated with months of manipulation, and went back to being the enterprising man of earlier days when he had decided upon the layout of the streets and the location of the new houses so that no one would enjoy privileges that everyone did not have.†  (source)
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  • The beam was attenuated more by the gaseous carbon and iron than by the armor.†  (source)
    attenuated = reduced in strength, amount, or size
  • To stay now meant attenuation; perhaps her own kind of death.†  (source)
    attenuation = reduction in strength, amount, or size
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
  • He certainly felt that he was part of a different, more restricted society, was anything but a tourist; and his more recent, broadening perspective had brought with it attenuating duties and a dignity that distanced him from others, so that he was not of a mind to join them in their romps or to roll in the snow like a fool.†  (source)
    attenuating = reducing in strength, amount, or size
  • With no reactor coolant to absorb the heat of the uranium rods, the nuclear reaction actually stopped—there was no water to attenuate the neutron flux.†  (source)
    attenuate = reduced in strength, amount, or size
  • The sky that shows around the dim white building is a peculiarly tender blue, almost turquoise, which invests the scene with a kind of lyricism and gracefully attenuates the atmosphere of decay.†  (source)
    attenuates = reduces in strength, amount, or size
  • But once he'd learned to be patient with her repetitions and attenuations he began to find her presence a source of enormous comfort.†  (source)
  • The night before I had felt uncomfortable when I saw the men waiting in lines outside the doorways, smoking and taunting and singing to one another as they waited, their exuberance amazingly whole, unattenuated.†  (source)
    unattenuated = not reduced in strength, amount, or size
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unattenuated means not and reverses the meaning of attenuated. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • As a rile, Simon avoids her type of attenuated and quietly distraught female, although doctors attract such women like magnets.†  (source)
    attenuated = reduced in strength, amount, or size
  • It was as though instead of having been subtly slain and corrupted by the ruthless and bigoted man into something beyond his intending and her knowing, she had been hammered stubbornly thinner and thinner like some passive and dully malleable metal, into an attenuation of dumb hopes and frustrated desires now faint and pale as dead ashes.†  (source)
    attenuation = reduction in strength, amount, or size
  • In the new path which he had entered on, in judging the mistakes of the old regime, as in measuring the glory of Napoleon, he neglected the attenuating circumstances.†  (source)
    attenuating = reducing in strength, amount, or size
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