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verb

Dilute v. t. (past & past part. diluted; pres. part. diluting)

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."

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."

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

adjective

Dilute adj. Diluted; thin; weak. "A dilute and waterish exposition."

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Etymology of 'Dilute'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dilute" Quotes from Famous Books

... dangerously akin to self-pity, most odious of vices. Catholic teaching—in practice, if not in theory—-glides artfully over the desirability of these imported freak-virtues, knowing that they cannot appeal to a masculine stock. By placid I mean steady, self-contained.] to dilute envious thoughts and the acts to which they lead, is at bottom a question of nutrition. One would like to know for how much black brooding and for how many revengeful deeds that morning thimbleful of black ...

— Old Calabria • Norman Douglas

... "what I ought to have done was to dilute the oxygen with a little air first, but you fellows flurried me so ...

— The Willoughby Captains • Talbot Baines Reed

... scarcely credit it, but times like these don't dilute the tenacity or light-heartedness of our soldiers. You can hear a joke on these occasions, and hear the laughter ...

— Bullets & Billets • Bruce Bairnsfather

... broadest-pointed pens, launch their newspapers daily laden with untruths, and send preachers abroad to disseminate falsehood like flies carrying pestilential germs. I am a humble follower of these great ones. When I was attached to the Congress party I never hesitated to dilute ten per cent of truth with ninety per cent of untruth. And now, merely because I have ceased to belong to that party, I have not forgotten the basic fact that man's goal is not ...

— The Home and the World • Rabindranath Tagore

... keeps its ground? Were there no natural advantages—no water privileges, forsooth? Ay, the deep Walden Pond and cool Brister's Spring—privilege to drink long and healthy draughts at these, all unimproved by these men but to dilute their glass. They were universally a thirsty race. Might not the basket, stable-broom, mat-making, corn-parching, linen-spinning, and pottery business have thrived here, making the wilderness to blossom ...

— Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience • Henry David Thoreau

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