[{"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to weaken or reduce in force, intensity, effect, quantity, or value:to attenuate desire.", "to make thin; make slender or fine.", "Bacteriology, Immunology.to render less virulent, as a strain of pathogenic virus or bacterium.", "Electronics.to decrease the amplitude of (an electronic signal):A splitter will attenuate your output."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to become thin, fine, or weak; lessen :Over the years, my anger at my family attenuated and I was able to acknowledge the strengths they had given me."]}, {"Bold_text": "adjective", "List Items": ["weakened; diminishing.", "Botany.tapering gradually to a narrow extremity."]}]