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reattenuating

reattenuating is the present participle and gerund of reattenuate.

Meaning of reattenuate

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

Questions about reattenuating

What is reattenuating the present participle and gerund of?
Reattenuating is the present participle and gerund of reattenuate.

Words near reattenuating in the dictionary

  1. reattends
  2. reattentive
  3. reattenuate
  4. reattenuated
  5. reattenuates
  6. reattenuating
  7. reattenuation
  8. reattest
  9. reattested
  10. reattesting
  11. reattests

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reattenuating (page history and authors); reattenuate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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