attenuate vs extenuate
Definitions
adjective
- reduced in strength
verb
- weaken the consistency of (a chemical substance)
- become weaker, in strength, value, or magnitude
Examples
Some research suggests, however, that the effects of aging are attenuated not by how much people receive from their community but by how much they contribute to it.
Clinicians should refer cocaine-exposed children to early intervention services to attenuate long-term effects.
Bold choices are attenuated by combination with impalpable chiffon.
Definitions
verb
- lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of
Examples
To this extenuated spectre, perhaps, a crumb is not thrown once a year; but when ahungered and athirst to famine - when all humanity has forgotten the dying tenant of a decaying house - Divine Mercy remembers the mourner, and a shower of manna falls for lips that earthly nutriment is to pass no more.
Black folks galore, I am sure, were ordering Bombay Sapphires, straight up, lemon twist—dry, veerrry dry, without receiving an extenuated lesson on the authenticity of a martini.
Her hair, streaked with gray, was always pulled back in bun, a style that only extenuated the bags and bruises that clung to her eyes.
