Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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attenuate

/əˈtɛn.juˌeɪt/ verb, adjective

Forms attenuates attenuating attenuated

  1. verb (transitive) To reduce in size, force, value, amount, or degree.
  2. verb (transitive) To make thinner, as by physically reshaping, starving, or decaying.
  3. verb (intransitive) To become thin or fine; to grow less.
  4. verb (transitive) To weaken.
  5. verb (transitive) To rarefy.
  6. verb (transitive, medicine) To reduce the virulence of a bacterium or virus.
  7. verb (transitive, electronics) To reduce the amplitude of an electrical, radio, or optical signal.
  8. verb (brewing) Of a beer, to become less dense as a result of the conversion of sugar to alcohol.
  9. adjective Slender, thin.
  10. adjective (in consistency) Rarefied, thin, refined.
  11. adjective (botany, of leaves) Gradually tapering into a petiole-like extension toward the base.

Synonyms

dilute diminish lessen mitigate slender weaken rarefy attenuated faded weakened

Antonyms

amplify strengthen intensify

Etymology

The verb is first attested in 1530, the adjective in 1626; borrowed from Latin attenuātus, the perfect passive participle of attenuō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + tenuo (“to make thin”), itself from tenuis (“thin”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To make thin or slender, as by mechanical or chemical action upon inanimate objects, or by the effects of starvation, disease, etc., upon living bodies.
  2. verb To make thin or less consistent; to render less viscid or dense; to rarefy. Specifically: To subtilize, as the humors of the body, or to break them into finer parts.
  3. verb To become thin, slender, or fine; to grow less; to lessen.
  4. adjective Made thin or slender.

Etymology [L. attenuatus, p. p. of attenuare; ad + tenuare to make thin, tenuis thin. See Thin.]

Etymology [L. attenuatus, p. p.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “attenuate”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “attenuate” (best matches first).