<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>to weaken or reduce in force, intensity, effect, quantity, or value: to attenuate desire.</li><li>to make thin; make slender or fine.</li><li>to render less virulent, as a strain of pathogenic virus or bacterium.</li><li>to decrease the amplitude of (an electronic signal): A splitter will attenuate your output.</li><li>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.</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>weakened; diminishing.</li><li>tapering gradually to a narrow extremity.</li></ul>