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Watering down
Answer for the clue "Watering down ", 8 letters:
diluting
Word definitions for diluting in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of dilute English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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 .] To make thinner or more liquid by admixture ...
Usage examples of diluting.
They sagged and bowed, water breaching them in gouts and diluting the riverbed, eddying around the feet of the few remaining strikers, coiling like the gas above it, until with a shiver the Gross Tar reknit itself, healing the little rift that had paralysed it and confused its currents.
A match-sore Hal not limping but stiff-legged and shoulders slightly rolling as he and Troeltsch move serpentine around tables, steering way clear of the custodian and dull-steel bucket on rollers and the mop spreading and diluting Makulic's chyme out in a thinning circle that clears three tables, which Hal and Troeltsch avoid with practiced curves around tables whose layout they all know well, Hal to say Hey and How's the Limb, Troeltsch to say Hey and be basically relieved he's away from a discussion of females as sexual objects.
He must be skimming away pure melange and diluting it with supposedly inert materials.
Therefore, we had expected to discover impurities here on Arrakis, inert substances used by the Baron to extend the quantity of melange while diluting its quality—thereby introducing the subtle poisons that resulted in several disasters.
They were fascinated by the special psionic Talents used by the Federation to reduce loss of life without diluting the effectiveness of the deterrent with which they had defeated the initial attempts of the Hive ships to intrude on their spheres of influence.
Can we do something about diluting the pheromones it's carrying to the east?
He probably did it deliberately, dividing his senses rather than diluting the visual attention he was paying to the waiter.
He poured Raymond's coffee first, putting in three teaspoons of sugar and diluting it with milk until the coffee barely had a tan color.
He must be skimming away pure melange and diluting it with supposedly inert materials.
Therefore, we had expected to discover impurities here on Arrakis, inert substances used by the Baron to extend the quantity of melange while diluting its quality -- thereby introducing the subtle poisons that resulted in several disasters.
Therefore, we had expected to discover impurities here on Arrakis, inert substances used by the Baron to extend the quantity of melange while diluting its quality ― thereby introducing the subtle poisons that resulted in several disasters.
The colours of her physiological display changed, reds diluting to amber, as it began knitting itself to her wound.
Water poured out of the sagging guttering, diluting the slow-moving sludge that percolated round the base of the walls.
It mingled with the sweat, diluting it, diluting the pain in my arm, diluting everything, and I closed my eyes and let it fall.
At Colin's signal, Giles jerked the sword from Leofwin's wound, and Colin sluiced unicorn water over it, diluting the dark red which welled up from the puncture to pale pink.