Verb (used with object) : to attenuate desire.    From Dictionary.com. 

The term attenuated focalization refers to a situation where point of view is limited, even if temporarily, to an impeded or distanced visual perspective.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

The shot contains something called attenuated virus.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The gene mutation causes a condition known as attenuated familial adenomatous polyposis (AFAP).    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

This is different than some of the -- what are called attenuated vaccines, or not so live vaccines that are much more safe.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 8, 2002] Reference

My blush deepened as I recalled the attenuated blazer in which my secretary breakfasted, lunched and dined without discrimination.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fool and His Money] Reference

When the disease has become "attenuated," either by treatment or by itself -- many diseases lose their virulence in time -- the child may be carried to term.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman Her Sex and Love Life] Reference

Reformation produced a kind of attenuated Catholicism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Age of the Reformation] Reference

The live but weakened ( "attenuated") virus creates all three immune responses, Lee says.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

For those of you who don't know what "attenuated" means, let me save you from heading for your dictionary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

"attenuated" bacilli proved to be curiously resistant to the deadly effects of subsequent inoculations of the non-attenuated form.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

By the inoculation of attenuated strains of bacteria.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.] Reference

They described it to me as resembling attenuated mist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference

So they will be dealt with in somewhat attenuated form today.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Jaws of Kronos, scene 4] Reference

In short, the incentives for listening to communities are attenuated at best.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dennis Whittle: Listening and Learning] Reference

His attenuated back is rounded off with a stoop between the neck and shoulders.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

At two hours and 15 minutes, "The Alamo" feels both interminable and attenuated.    From Wordnik.com.  [MEXICANS? BRING 'EM ON!] Reference

The benefits of expanded trade are even more attenuated south of Mexico's border.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yanquis, Come Here] Reference

In an oblique, attenuated way, Point Omega is DeLillo's response to the Iraq war.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don DeLillo: 'I'm not trying to manipulate reality – this is what I see and hear'] Reference

Influenza is present in the principal horse centers in a somewhat attenuated form.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference

Furiously galloping behind came an attenuated snow-white charger, bearing the hunchback.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Rose] Reference

In producing active immunity by the attenuated virus, Duguid and J.S. Burdon-S.nderson and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

Naturally he could go longer without nourishment than a weak, attenuated, thin-blooded man.    From Wordnik.com.  [The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure] Reference

A light breeze suddenly brushed her face, the attenuated spirit of tragic, guilty pleasure.    From Wordnik.com.  [’] Reference

He was of a large and powerful build, but seemed attenuated by want, or disease -- or perhaps, both.    From Wordnik.com.  [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference

"I wonder whether you or I look the better nourished," he asked, surveying the doctor's attenuated form.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grey Town An Australian Story] Reference

Matter which produces the Fire, is the Oil of Plants, attenuated by the heat of the Day, and raised on high.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shepherd of Banbury's Rules to Judge of the Changes of the Weather, Grounded on Forty Years' Experience] Reference

Beneath those robes must have been a body as attenuated as a skeleton, as different as an insect's from man's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Valley of the Croen] Reference

Think of Apple in its current form as an attenuated antitrust virus (of the noncomputer variety) for Microsoft.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill Does What's Good For Bill] Reference

Brewster points out, is not that the moon has no atmosphere, but that if it have any it is extremely attenuated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moon Lore] Reference

The attenuated column, however, is kept moving along the highway for the express purpose of deceiving the airman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference

In an earlier statement, the company noted that attenuated performance is a "fact of life" for every wireless phone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Apple—and not its customers—should fix the iPhone 4] Reference

He had no honest recollection of when it had finally gotten to be too much for both of them and not so much gone away as attenuated.    From Wordnik.com.  [The several stages of grief] Reference

Our wounded were many, and some companies looked woefully attenuated as the remnant, when all was over, whistled themselves back to camp.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference

The Great Depression was indeed a disastrous human calamity but FDR's New Deal (including the high wage policies) attenuated the disaster.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marshall Auerback: The Real Lesson From the Great Depression: Fiscal Policy Works!] Reference

The union of persons prone to corpulency, of dwarfs, etc., would have parallel results; and so, likewise, of weakly and attenuated couples.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference