| antenuptial | (adjective) relating to events before a marriage | Synonyms: premarital, prenuptial |
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| attenuate | (adjective) reduced in strength | Synonyms: attenuated, faded, weakened |
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| (verb) become weaker, in strength, value, or magnitude | - |
| (verb) weaken the consistency of (a chemical substance) | Synonyms: rarefy |
| attenuated | (adjective) reduced in strength | Synonyms: attenuate, faded, weakened |
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| (adjective) of an electrical signal; reduced in amplitude with little or no distortion | - |
| attenuation | (noun) the property of something that has been weakened or reduced in thickness or density | - |
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| (noun) weakening in force or intensity | Synonyms: fading |
| attenuator | (noun) an electrical device for attenuating the strength of an electrical signal | - |
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| catenulate | (adjective) having a chainlike form | Synonyms: chainlike |
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| (verb) arrange in a series of rings or chains, as for spores | Synonyms: catenate |
| extenuate | (verb) lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of | Synonyms: mitigate, palliate |
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| extenuating | (adjective) partially excusing or justifying | - |
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| extenuation | (noun) to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious | Synonyms: mitigation, palliation |
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| (noun) a partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances | Synonyms: mitigation |
| hypotenuse | (noun) the side of a right triangle opposite the right angle | - |
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| ritenuto | (adjective) (music) gradually decreasing in tempo | Synonyms: rallentando, rit., ritardando |
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| tenuity | (noun) a rarified quality | Synonyms: low density, rarity |
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| (noun) the quality of lacking intensity or substance | Synonyms: feebleness |
| (noun) relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width | Synonyms: slenderness, thinness |
| tenuous | (adjective) lacking substance or significance | Synonyms: flimsy, fragile, slight, thin |
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| (adjective) very thin in gauge or diameter | - |
| (adjective) having thin consistency | - |
| tenuously | (adverb) in a tenuous manner | - |
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| tenure | (noun) the right to hold property; part of an ancient hierarchical system of holding lands | Synonyms: land tenure |
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| (noun) the term during which some position is held | Synonyms: incumbency, term of office |
| (verb) give life-time employment to | - |
| tenured | (adjective) appointed for life and not subject to dismissal except for a grave crime | - |
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