Both Uses of
attenuate
in
The War of the Worlds
- 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.†
Chpt 1.1attenuated = reduced in strength, amount, or size
- 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.†
Chpt 1.5 *
Definition:
reduce in strength, amount, or size