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dilutes

dilutes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of dilute.

dilutes is the plural of dilute.

Meaning of dilute

Verb

dilute (third-person singular simple present dilutes, present participle diluting, simple past and past participle diluted)

  1. (transitive) To make thinner by adding solvent to a solution, especially by adding water.
    • Mix their watery store / With the chyle's current, and dilute it more.1712, Richard Blackmore, Creation: A Philosophical Poem
  2. (transitive) To weaken, especially by adding a foreign substance.
    • For if these Colours be diluted and weakened by the Mixture of any adventitious light, the distance between the places of the Paper will not be so great.1704, I[saac] N[ewton], “[The First Book of Opticks. Part I.] ”, in Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. […], London: […] Sam[uel] Smith, and...
  3. (transitive) To cause the value of individual shares or the stake of a shareholder to decrease by increasing the total number of shares.
  4. (intransitive) To become attenuated, thin, or weak.
    • It dilutes easily.

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Questions about dilutes

What is dilutes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Dilutes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of dilute.

Words near dilutes in the dictionary

  1. dilutee
  2. dilutees
  3. diluteness
  4. diluter
  5. diluters
  6. dilutes
  7. dilutetium
  8. diluting
  9. diluting juice
  10. diluting juices
  11. dilution

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