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reduce in strength, amount, or size (especially in thickness)
- Vertical black figures in twos and threes would advance, stop, watch, and advance again, spreading out as they did so in a thin irregular crescent that promised to enclose the pit in its attenuated horns.1.5 — Book 1 Chapter 5 — The Heat-Ray (30% in)
- Its air is much more attenuated than ours, its oceans have shrunk until they cover but a third of its surface, and as its slow seasons change huge snowcaps gather and melt about either pole and periodically inundate its temperate zones.1.1 — Book 1 Chapter 1 — The Coming of the Martians (23% in)
There are no more uses of "attenuate" in The War of the Worlds.
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