0 to make something less or weaker:
Radiation from the sun is attenuated by the earth's atmosphere.
They propose more peacekeeping troops to attenuate the violence.
The tax code is one of the few tools we have in attenuating income inequality.
The noise can be supressed at source, by screening it or attenuating its power.
Despite the government's efforts to attenuate or eliminate the worst police abuses, they continued.
Engineers began to attenuate the strength of signals at chosen frequencies.
Some factors are known to attenuate the biological effects of stress.
Intuitively, the positive savings effect associated with the reduction in generational turnover attenuates the fall in aggregate savings induced by the lower rate of interest.
Of these, the region of the country may attenuate differences between months.
