Verb

(accentuat)

To pronounce with an accent or vocal stress.

To bring out distinctly; to make more noticeable or prominent; to emphasize.

* In Bosnia, the struggle between East and West was even more accentuated . - London Times

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, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=5 citation , passage=These were business hours, and a feeling of loneliness crept over him, perhaps germinated by his sight of the illustrated papers, and accentuated by an attempted perusal of them.}}

To mark with a written accent.

Verb

(attenuat)

To reduce in size, force, value, amount, or degree.

* 1874 , , Far From the Madding Crowd , ch. 40:

A manor-house clock from the far depths of shadow struck the hour, one, in a small, attenuated tone.

To make thinner, as by physically reshaping, starving, or decaying.

* 1899 , , His New Mittens , ch. 4:

Clumps of attenuated turkeys were suspended here and there.

* 1906 , , The Malefactor , ch. 1:

Lovell, wan and hollow-eyed, his arm in a sling, his once burly frame gaunt and attenuated with disease, nodded.

To weaken.

* Coleridge

The attention attenuates as its sphere contracts.

* Sir F. Palgrave

We may reject and reject till we attenuate history into sapless meagreness.

To rarefy.

* 1901 , , The First Men in the Moon , ch. 23:

"It speedily became apparent that the entire strangeness of our circumstances and surroundings—great loss of weight, attenuated but highly oxygenated air, consequent exaggeration of the results of muscular effort, rapid development of weird plants from obscure spores, lurid sky—was exciting my companion unduly."

(medicine) To reduce the virulence of a bacteria or virus.

(electronics) To reduce the amplitude of an electrical signal.