Hyphenation of attenuate

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word attenuate? This word can be hyphenated and contains 4 syllables as shown below.

at-ten-u-ate

Definitions of attenuate:

1.	Weaken the consistency of (a chemical substance)
2.	Become weaker, in strength, value, or magnitude
3.	Reduced in strength The faded tones of an old recording

Synonyms of attenuate:

adj	attenuated, faded, weakened, decreased, reduced
verb	rarefy, weaken
verb	weaken

Last hyphenations of this language

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