Found 3 items, similar to dilute.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: dilute
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: dilute
dilute
adj : reduced in strength or concentration or quality or purity;
“diluted alcohol”;
“a dilute solution”;
“dilute acetic
acid” [syn:
diluted] [ant:
undiluted]
dilute
v 1: lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture;
“cut
bourbon” [syn:
thin,
thin out,
reduce,
cut]
2: corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or
inferior substance; often by replacing valuable
ingredients with inferior ones;
“adulterate liquor” [syn:
adulterate,
stretch,
debase]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Dilute
Dilute
\Di*lute"\, v. i.
To become attenuated, thin, or weak; as, it dilutes easily.
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Dilute
\Di*lute"\, a. [L. dilutus, p. p.]
Diluted; thin; weak.
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A dilute and waterish exposition. --Hopkins.
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Dilute
\Di*lute"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Diluted; p. pr. & vb.
n.
Diluting.] [L. dilutus, p. p. of diluere to wash away,
dilute; di- = dis- + luere, equiv. to lavare to wash, lave.
See
Lave, and cf.
Deluge.]
1. To make thinner or more liquid by admixture with
something; to thin and dissolve by mixing.
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Mix their watery store.
With the chyle's current, and dilute it more.
--Blackmore.
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2. To diminish the strength, flavor, color, etc., of, by
mixing; to reduce, especially by the addition of water; to
temper; to attenuate; to weaken.
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Lest these colors should be diluted and weakened by
the mixture of any adventitious light. --Sir I.
Newton.
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