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reattenuate

reattenuate verb: to attenuate again.

Verb

reattenuate (third-person singular simple present reattenuates, present participle reattenuating, simple past and past participle reattenuated)

  1. (transitive) To attenuate again.
    • A crowd mostly of old people had converged on the gate and reattenuated in the long, bright corridor beyond it.2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

Forms of reattenuate

third-person singular presentreattenuates
present participlereattenuating
past participlereattenuated
pastreattenuated

Origin of reattenuate

From re- + attenuate.

Questions about reattenuate

What does reattenuate mean?
Reattenuate means to attenuate again.
What part of speech is reattenuate?
Reattenuate is a verb.
What is the past tense of reattenuate?
The past tense of reattenuate is reattenuated.

Words near reattenuate in the dictionary

  1. reattender
  2. reattenders
  3. reattending
  4. reattends
  5. reattentive
  6. reattenuate
  7. reattenuated
  8. reattenuates
  9. reattenuating
  10. reattenuation
  11. reattest

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