The truth tends to attenuate lies. From LearnThat.org.
Verb (used with object) : to attenuate desire. From Dictionary.com.
This being correctly guessed to represent "attenuate" (at ten you ate), the other side goes from the room and the previous performers become the audience. From Wordnik.com. [Entertainments for Home, Church and School] Reference
That is, if you attenuate a jury or a judge's sentence. From Wordnik.com. [Interview Of The President By The Christian Science Monitor] Reference
Here are some other reasons to attenuate an otherwise joyful reaction. From Wordnik.com. [Unprotected downloads at a premium price: Hear, hear?] Reference
Wetlands such as floodplains, lakes, and reservoirs help to attenuate floods. From Wordnik.com. [Ecosystems and Human Well-being~ Wetlands and Water~ Wetlands and Water~ Ecosystems and Human Well-being] Reference
It will attenuate, at least with respect to him, the severity of simple minds. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Training could attenuate the stress of combat operations, but never remove it. From Wordnik.com. [Clear and Present Danger]
Snow and ice cover strongly attenuate UV radiation, protecting organisms underneath. From Wordnik.com. [Ozone and Ultraviolet Radiation in the Arctic] Reference
These can lead to feedback effects that can amplify or attenuate the original signal. From Wordnik.com. [Arctic climate variability prior to 100 years BP] Reference
So a slow (ph) than illegal (ph) immigration would obviously tend to attenuate the problem. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 6, 2005] Reference
We should not attenuate normal trade relations with a country just because we disagree with it. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks By President To People Of Colorado] Reference
It made the Algarvians have a tougher time seeing him, and it might attenuate their beams, too. From Wordnik.com. [Rulers of the Darkness]
Barrier beaches, wetlands, and lakes attenuate floods by absorbing runoff peaks and storm surges. From Wordnik.com. [Ecosystems and Human Well-being Synthesis~ Appendix A. Ecosystem Service Reports] Reference
Atmospheric aerosolsNegativeAerosols can attenuate UV radiation reaching the surface of the earth. From Wordnik.com. [Factors affecting surface ultraviolet radiation levels in the Arctic] Reference
Braan turned and belligerently scanned the members, defiantly awaiting the disruption to attenuate. From Wordnik.com. [Genellan- Planetfall]
They let it grow for some time, and then they extract it and then they deactivate it or attenuate it. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 20, 2009] Reference
So here we sit, watching our retirement funds attenuate like trees do their leaves this time each year. From Wordnik.com. [Donna Albergotti: Multiple Voices in Inspiring Essay Compilation] Reference
So here we sit, watching our retirement funds attenuate like trees do their leaves this time each ye. From Wordnik.com. [Donna Albergotti: Multiple Voices in Inspiring Essay Compilation] Reference
By opening the pores, they extraordinarily discuss outward tumours, and attenuate the internal coagulation. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves] Reference
She encounters other tentacles on the way, feeble, attenuate things, barely twitching against the currents. From Wordnik.com. [Starfish] Reference
In addition, many arctic plants have thick leaves that might attenuate UV-B radiation entering leaf tissues. From Wordnik.com. [Phenotypic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation] Reference
So since this is not the case, maybe there's some other ingredient in coffee that may attenuate the effect of caffeine. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 9, 2005] Reference
CloudinessNegative/PositiveThick clouds can attenuate UV radiation reaching the surface of the earth by tens of percent. From Wordnik.com. [Factors affecting surface ultraviolet radiation levels in the Arctic] Reference
Anyways, an aggressive environment will attenuate to disappearance local-schizophrenia with beneficial effects on everybody. From Wordnik.com. [The Brain, A Decoded Enigma] Reference
Her playful use of language and popular themes taken from comic strips or tangos attenuate the underlying current of terror. From Wordnik.com. [Alicia Steimberg.] Reference
For over a decade, adaptation was kept off the policy agenda by those who feared it would attenuate support for reducing emissions. From Wordnik.com. [Hot Air in Bali] Reference
Allowing they are diluting in health, their constant use may so attenuate the liquids as to destroy their natural force and tensity. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves] Reference
The elevations of the Hay Al Massira houses therefore require special treatment to attenuate this excessive exposure to light and heat. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
As for the turtle-soupe, it is a good restorative and balsamic; but, I apprehend, will tend to thicken rather than attenuate the phlegm. From Wordnik.com. [Travels through France and Italy] Reference
Snow and vegetation (with the underlying organic layer) have low thermal conductivity and attenuate annual variations in air temperature. From Wordnik.com. [Permafrost in the Arctic] Reference
The top four were: controlling HIV/AIDS, micronutrients for fighting malnutrition, free trade to attenuate poverty, and battling malaria. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Shermer: Chill Out: An Economic Triage for Global Climate Change] Reference
The government has instructed oil traders to double their imports to help attenuate the crisis and appealed to the public to remain calm. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
And we can expect that any conference committee between the House and Senate bills will further attenuate whatever comes out of the House. From Wordnik.com. [John Geyman: Health Care "Reform" 2009: The Fallacy of Affordability and Cost Containment] Reference
These aromatics likewise evacuate serum from the blood, promote its circulation, and attenuate the coagulations of chyle, lympha, and succus nervosus. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves] Reference
"I perceive your meaning, yet it does not attenuate me, at least I do not feel that it does, when the spiritual and affectional parts of my nature are exercised.". From Wordnik.com. [Dawn] Reference
He would not leave it to itself: he would take it gently into his hands, attenuate it, prolong it, economize it, and mould it into the clew to his own good-fortune. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867] Reference
If that shaking happened that low, you have a little bit of padding where you attenuate as we call it, you attenuate the shaking by the time it gets to the surface. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 12, 2010] Reference
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