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attenuate: reduce the force, effect, or value of.
by Gustomaximus 7y ago
attenuate: reduce the force, effect, or value of.
- wsetchell 7y agoI googled this too. The second definition fits better here 'reduced in force, effect, or physical thickness.'
- The_rationalist 7y agoIt's an example of a basic mainstream word in a lang (French) not being well-known in another (English) It would be useful to find a website that aggregate words with such property because heuristically if one word is well known in one language, it's probably a useful one, and the fact that your language hasn't yet assimilated it is contingent.
- Eric_WVGG 7y agospeaking of the French, I bet the effects for nicotine are similar if not amplified. Say what you will about premature aging, but those coffee-and-cigarettes types cut a lean profile.
- eric_h 7y agoI’m guessing one factor in that is the appetite suppression effects of both. I heard a story (though perhaps apocryphal) about tobacco use increasing during the Great Depression specifically because of that side effect.
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- cjsawyer 7y agoI was only familiar with it in engineering terms, like “signal attenuation” over a long wire. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attenuation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attenuation