at|ten|u|ant

at|ten|u|ant
at|ten|u|ant «uh TEHN yu uhnt», adjective, noun.
–adj.
attenuating; making thin, as fluids.
–n.
a medicine that thins the fluids of the body.
[< Latin attenuāns, -antis, present participle of attenuāre attenuate]

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