DILUTE

v. a.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

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.
v.

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.

3.
v.

To become attenuated, thin, or weak; as, it dilutes easily.

4.
a.

Diluted; thin; weak. A dilute and waterish exposition. Hopkins.


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