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diluted

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di·lute  (d-lt, d-)
tr.v. di·lut·ed, di·lut·ing, di·lutes
1. To make thinner or less concentrated by adding a liquid such as water.
2. To lessen the force, strength, purity, or brilliance of, especially by admixture.
3. To decrease the value of (shares of stock) by increasing the total number of shares.
adj.
Weakened; diluted.
[Latin dluere, dlt- : d-, dis-, apart, away; see dis- + -luere, to wash (from lavere; see leu()- in Indo-European roots).]
di·luter, di·lutor n.
di·lutive adj.
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Adj.1.diluted - reduced in strength or concentration or quality or purity; "diluted alcohol"; "a dilute solution"; "dilute acetic acid"
dilute
undiluted - not diluted; "undiluted milk"; "an undiluted racial strain"
diluted
adjective watered down, thinned, weak, weakened, dilute, watery, adulterated, cut (informal) wishy-washy (informal)


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Moreover, the art attains its end within narrower limits; for the concentrated effect is more pleasurable than one which is spread over a long time and so diluted.
The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle View in context
His equivocations with himself about the death of Raffles had sustained the conception of an Omniscience whom he prayed to, yet he had a terror upon him which would not let him expose them to judgment by a full confession to his wife: the acts which he had washed and diluted with inward argument and motive, and for which it seemed comparatively easy to win invisible pardon--what name would she call them by?
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
However, the masts did not go overboard; and by and bye we scrambled down, so sober, that we had to pass the flip again, though the savage salt spray bursting down the forecastle scuttle, rather too much diluted and pickled it to my taste.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
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