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The act or process of making slender, or the state of being slender; emaciation.

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  1. n. The act or process of making slender, or the state of being slender; emaciation.
  2. n. The act of attenuating; the act of making thin or less dense, or of rarefying, as fluids or gases.
  3. n. The process of weakening in intensity; diminution of virulence; as, the attenuation of virus.
  4. n. weakening in force or intensity
  5. n. the property of something that has been weakened or reduced in thickness or density
  6. 1. The act or process of making slender, or the state of being slender; emaciation. 2. The act of attenuating; the act of making thin or less dense, or of rarefying, as fluids or gases. 3. The process of weakening in intensity; diminution of virulence; as, the attenuation of virus.
  7. n:100 n. weakening in force or intensity n. the property of something that has been weakened or reduced in thickness or density