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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of attenuate.

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Examples

  • Graf J, Vanderwall K, Adzick NS, Harrison MR: Nitroglycerin attenuates the bowel damage of necrotizing enterocolitis in a rabbit model.

    CHOP pediatric surgery publications 2010

  • Foronjy RF, Mirochnitchenko O, Propokenko O, Lemaitre V, Jia YX, et al. (2006) Superoxide dismutase expression attenuates cigarette smoke - or elastase-generated emphysema in mice.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Richard E. Jacob et al. 2009

  • The shake kind of attenuates; it kind of goes away a little bit.

    CNN Transcript Apr 18, 2008 2008

  • The banality of political correctness, the attenuation of meaning in the argot of legalese/computere/governmentese newspeak attenuates all feeling and meaning.

    One Book, One Tweet « Third Point of Singularity 2010

  • One can only assume that this attenuates the flavor in a significant manner. caterchick Says:

    NJ Dining: Chengdu 1 (UPDATED August 2009) 2009

  • Where mistrust among hostile forces is strong, a third-party broker's unmatchable military threat attenuates fears about the future.

    Jean G. Tompihé: Bloody Democracy in Ivory Coast: What Went Wrong? Jean G. Tompihé 2011

  • Exposure to a metabolite of the environmental toxicant trichloroethylene attenuates CD4+ T cell activation-induced cell death by metalloproteinase-dependent FasL shedding.

    The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008

  • Exposure to a metabolite of the environmental toxicant trichloroethylene attenuates CD4+ T cell activation-induced cell death by metalloproteinase-dependent FasL shedding.

    The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008

  • And as people see that their friends and family are living longer lives with the antiretroviral drugs, the stigma eventually attenuates.

    Positive Developments In HIV/AIDS Research 2010

  • However, if BP attenuates any planned public outreach for fear of compromising some future legal position, it will cast itself long term as Corporate Public Enemy No. 1, to the glee of its oil industry competitors.

    How Lessons From The Military Could Save BP's Reputation Richard S. Levick 2010

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