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tenuate

tenuate verb: to make thin; to attenuate.

Verb

tenuate (third-person singular simple present tenuates, present participle tenuating, simple past and past participle tenuated)

  1. (archaic, rare, transitive) To make thin; to attenuate.

Forms of tenuate

third-person singular presenttenuates
present participletenuating
past participletenuated
pasttenuated

Origin of tenuate

From Latin tenuatus, past participle of tenuare (“to make thin”).

Questions about tenuate

What does tenuate mean?
Tenuate means to make thin; to attenuate.
What part of speech is tenuate?
Tenuate is a verb.
What is the past tense of tenuate?
The past tense of tenuate is tenuated.

Words near tenuate in the dictionary

  1. tentward
  2. tentwards
  3. tentwise
  4. tentwort
  5. tenual
  6. tenuate
  7. tenuated
  8. tenuates
  9. tenuating
  10. tenuation
  11. tenuations

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