tenuate

English

Etymology

Latin tenuatus, past participle of tenuare (“to make thin”).

Verb

tenuate (third-person singular simple present tenuates, present participle tenuating, simple past and past participle tenuated)

1. (archaic, transitive) To make thin; to attenuate.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tenuate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Verb

tenuāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of tenuō