Word Meanings - DILUTE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To make thinner or more liquid by admixture with something; to thin and dissolve by mixing. Mix their watery store. With the chyle's current, and dilute it more. Blackmore. 2. To diminish the strength, flavor, color, etc., of, by mixing; to

Additional info about word: DILUTE

1. To make thinner or more liquid by admixture with something; to thin and dissolve by mixing. Mix their watery store. With the chyle's current, and dilute it more. Blackmore. 2. To diminish the strength, flavor, color, etc., of, by mixing; to reduce, especially by the addition of water; to temper; to attenuate; to weaken. Lest these colors should be diluted and weakened by the mixture of any adventitious light. Sir I. Newton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DILUTE)

• Weaken
• Debilitate
• enfeeble
• enervate
• dilute
• impair
• paralyze
• attenuate
• sap

Related words: (words related to DILUTE)

• ATTENUATE; ATTENUATED
  1. Made thin or slender. 2. Made thin or less viscid; rarefied. Bacon.
• DILUTENESS
  The quality or state of being dilute. Bp. Wilkins.
• PARALYZE
  1. To affect or strike with paralysis or palsy. 2. Fig.: To unnerve; to destroy or impair the energy of; to render ineffective; as, the occurrence paralyzed the community; despondency paralyzed his efforts.
• IMPAIRMENT
  The state of being impaired; injury. "The impairment of my health." Dryden.
• IMPAIRER
  One who, or that which, impairs.
• ENFEEBLER
  One who, or that which, weakens or makes feeble.
• DILUTER
  One who, or that which, dilutes or makes thin, more liquid, or weaker.
• ENERVATE
  To deprive of nerve, force, strength, or courage; to render feeble or impotent; to make effeminate; to impair the moral powers of. A man . . . enervated by licentiousness. Macaulay. And rhyme began t' enervate poetry. Dryden. Syn. -- To weaken;
• DEBILITATE
  To impair the strength of; to weaken; to enfeeble; as, to debilitate the body by intemperance. Various ails debilitate the mind. Jenyns. The debilitated frame of Mr. Bertram was exhausted by this last effort. Sir W. Scott.
• WEAKEN
  1. To make weak; to lessen the strength of; to deprive of strength; to debilitate; to enfeeble; to enervate; as, to weaken the body or the mind; to weaken the hands of a magistrate; to weaken the force of an objection or an argument. Their hands
• ATTENUATE
  1. To make thin or slender, as by mechanical or chemical action upon inanimate objects, or by the effects of starvation, disease, etc., upon living bodies. 2. To make thin or less consistent; to render less viscid or dense; to rarefy. Specifically:
• ENFEEBLEMENT
  The act of weakening; enervation; weakness.
• WEAKENER
  One who, or that which, weakens. " weakeners of sin." South.
• DILUTE
  1. To make thinner or more liquid by admixture with something; to thin and dissolve by mixing. Mix their watery store. With the chyle's current, and dilute it more. Blackmore. 2. To diminish the strength, flavor, color, etc., of, by mixing; to
• ENFEEBLE
  To make feeble; to deprive of strength; to reduce the strength or force of; to weaken; to debilitate. Enfeebled by scanty subsistence and excessive toil. Prescott. Syn. -- To weaken; debilitate; enervate.
• IMPAIR
  To make worse; to diminish in quantity, value, excellence, or strength; to deteriorate; as, to impair health, character, the mind, value. Time sensibly all things impairs. Roscommon. In years he seemed, but not impaired by years. Pope. Syn. -- To
• DILUTED
  Reduced in strength; thin; weak. -- Di*lut"ed*ly, adv.
• UNIMPAIRABLE
  That can not be impaired. Hakewill.