[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

attenuate \atten"uate\, attenuated \atten"ua`ted\, a. l.
   attenuatus, p. p.
   1. made thin or slender.
      1913 webster

   2. made thin or less viscid; rarefied. --bacon.
      1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

attenuate \atten"uate\, v. t. imp.  p. p. attenuated; p.
   pr.  vb. n. attenuating. l. attenuatus, p. p. of
   attenuare; ad + tenuare to make thin, tenuis thin. see
   thin.
   1. to make thin or slender, as by mechanical or chemical
      action upon inanimate objects, or by the effects of
      starvation, disease, etc., upon living bodies.
      1913 webster

   2. to make thin or less consistent; to render less viscid or
      dense; to rarefy. specifically: to subtilize, as the
      humors of the body, or to break them into finer parts.
      1913 webster

   3. to lessen the amount, force, or value of; to make less
      complex; to weaken.
      1913 webster

            to undersell our rivals . . . has led the
            manufacturer to . . . attenuate his processes, in
            the allotment of tasks, to an extreme point. --i.
                                                  taylor.
      1913 webster

            we may reject and reject till we attenuate history
            into sapless meagerness.              --sir f.
                                                  palgrave.
      1913 webster
see also:
attenuated attenuating thin 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

decreased \decreased\ adj.
   made less in size or amount or degree. opposite of
   increased. narrower terms: attenuate, attenuated, faded,
   weakened; belittled, diminished, small; cut, cut-rate;
   diminished, lessened; minimized; remittent;
   attenuated

   syn: reduced.
        wordnet 1.5
see also:
increased attenuate, attenuated, faded, weakened belittled, diminished, small cut, cut-rate diminished, lessened minimized 
remittent attenuated 

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

attenuated
     adj 1: of an electrical signal; reduced in amplitude with little or
            no distortion
     2: reduced in strength; "the faded tones of an old recording"
        syn: attenuate, faded, weakened
see also:
attenuate faded weakened 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

145 moby thesaurus words for "attenuated":
   sanforized, abated, ablated, adulterated, airy, attenuate, bated,
   belittled, boyish, cadaverous, consumed, contracted, corky,
   corpselike, curtailed, cut, dainty, decreased, deflated, delicate,
   diaphanous, dilute, diluted, diminished, dissipated, downy,
   dried-up, dropped, emacerated, emaciate, emaciated, eroded,
   ethereal, fallen, filmy, fine, fine-drawn, fine-grained, finespun,
   flimsy, fluffy, frail, fuzzy, gaseous, gauzy, girlish, gossamer,
   gossamery, gracile, haggard, hollow-eyed, insubstantial, jejune,
   lacy, less, lesser, light, lower, lowered, marantic, marasmic,
   miniaturized, misty, papery, parched, peaked, peaky, pinched, poor,
   preshrunk, pubescent, puny, rare, rarefied, reduced, refined,
   retrenched, satin, satiny, scaled-down, sear, shorn, shorter,
   shriveled, shriveled up, shrunk, shrunken, silky, skeletal,
   slender, slenderish, slight, slight-made, slim, slimmish, slinky,
   small, smaller, smooth, starved, starveling, subtile, subtle,
   svelte, sylphlike, tabetic, tabid, tenuous, thin, thin-bodied,
   thin-set, thin-spun, thinned, thinned-out, thinnish, threadlike,
   uncompact, uncompressed, underfed, undernourished, unsubstantial,
   vague, vaporous, velutinous, velvety, wasp-waisted, wasted,
   wasted away, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, weakened,
   weazened, weazeny, willowy, windy, wiredrawn, wispy, withered,
   wizen, wizen-faced, wizened, worn, wraithlike

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