Definition of "attenuates" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of attenuate. (verb)

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• "Graf J, Vanderwall K, Adzick NS, Harrison MR: Nitroglycerin attenuates the bowel damage of necrotizing enterocolitis in a rabbit model."
• "Foronjy RF, Mirochnitchenko O, Propokenko O, Lemaitre V, Jia YX, et al. (2006) Superoxide dismutase expression attenuates cigarette smoke - or elastase-generated emphysema in mice."
• "The shake kind of attenuates; it kind of goes away a little bit."