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Diluted

Diluted \Di*lut"ed\, a. Reduced in strength; thin; weak. -- Di*lut"ed*ly, adv.

Diluted

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.

    Mix their watery store. With the chyle's current, and dilute it more.
    --Blackmore.

  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.

    Lest these colors should be diluted and weakened by the mixture of any adventitious light.
    --Sir I. Newton.

Wiktionary
diluted
  1. That has had something added in order to dilute it. v

  2. (en-past of: dilute)

WordNet
diluted
  1. adj. reduced in strength or concentration or quality or purity; "diluted alcohol"; "a dilute solution"; "dilute acetic acid" [syn: dilute] [ant: undiluted]

  2. made less strong or severe; "a pale gleam of diluted sunlight" [syn: toned down(p)]

Usage examples of "diluted".

This agent may be administered in doses of from five to ten drops, largely diluted in water or gruel.

Temporary relief may be given by administering one-quarter of a grain of morphine, or ten to twenty drops of chloroform in a teaspoonful of glycerine, slightly diluted, taken in one dose.

Season with paprika or a dash of cayenne, and when thoroughly heated stir in the yolks of two eggs, diluted with a little hot cream.

Those provers who have taken experimentally a tincture made from the wood and bark and leaves of the Blackthorn, all had to complain of sharp pains in the right eyeball and accordingly the diluted tincture is found, when administered in small quantities, to give signal relief for ciliary neuralgia, arising from a functional disorder of the structures within the eyeball.

The purpose of the salts is to prevent coagulation until the blood is diluted with water as in the experiments which follow.

It is cooled, transferred to a graduated flask, and diluted with water to 200 c.

The residue is taken up with hydrochloric acid, cooled, transferred to a graduated flask, and diluted to the mark.

Such noxious gases as may be produced by the discharge of the explosive are diluted by a much larger volume of air, and are practically harmless, as proven by actual analysis of samples taken at the face immediately after a discharge.

He was prepared to take a team of scientists to Kabul to show the Karzai government that a highly diluted version of glyphosate could be safely and effectively sprayed from the air with no serious health risks.

It was common wisdom in the Easterlies that the failure of Butterfly Day had come about in large part as a result of the treacherous connivance of the middle guilded of the Westerlies, who had diluted the Twelve Demands in cottony compromise and irrelevant talk about changing the calendar.

Instead, his direct line had died out and a line of more distant relatives, eventually diluted by haole blood, had gained power.

Other leaves in iodic acid, diluted to the same degree, showed after 2 hrs.

If you were exposed to Lewisite, flush your skin with a very diluted amount of household bleach, then wash thoroughly with soap and water.

On his return he read or wrote till the night was far spent, or rather till the morning was come again, sipping at intervals spirits diluted with water, as medicine to counteract some nephritic disorder to which he considered himself liable.

We sat at the bar for the first hour while Dolan downed three Manhattans and I sipped at a puckery white wine that I diluted with ice.