tenuate

From Latin tenuatus, past participle of tenuare (“to make thin”).

tenuate (third-person singular simple present tenuates, present participle tenuating, simple past and past participle tenuated)

1. (archaic, rare, transitive) To make thin; to attenuate.

• “tenuate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

tenuāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of tenuō