transitive. figurative. To reduce or weaken (something) in force, impact, purity, or quality; to make more moderate; spec. to make (language) less…
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释义 | society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > weaken [verb (transitive)] (12) water1529 transitive. figurative. To reduce or weaken (something) in force, impact, purity, or quality; to make more moderate; spec. to make (language) less… emasculate1608 transferred and figurative. To deprive of strength and vigour; to weaken, make effeminate and cowardly; to enfeeble, impoverish (language). wire-draw1660 transitive. To draw out into something less substantial; to stretch out thinly or weakly; to attenuate, over-refine. Obsolete. to water down1832 transitive. Often depreciative. To weaken in force, impact, or quality; to make more moderate; = sense 9b. Cf. watered-down, adj. 1 and slightly… to write down1876 transitive (in passive). Of a literary work: to be written in a style adapted to readers of supposedly less sophisticated taste or literary… sanitize1934 transferred and figurative, esp. (U.S. slang) to render more acceptable, clean up, as by the removal of undesirable, improper, or confidential… pasteurize1951 transitive. figurative. To render bland or uncontroversial; to sanitize. saccharinize1971 transitive. To sweeten by adding saccharin. Frequently figurative, to make agreeable; to render inoffensive. Subcategories:— lower in style (1) — render prosaic (2) — write in slovenly manner (1) |
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