Dictionary entry

Tenuate

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Ten″u‐ate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Tenuated (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Tenuating.] [L. tenuatus, p. p. of tenuare to make thin, fr. tenuis thin. See Tenuous.] To make thin; to attenuate.