Usually means: Reduces appetite, aids in weight loss.
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  1. Tenuate, tenuate: Wordnik
  2. tenuate: Wiktionary
  3. Tenuate: Dictionary.com
  4. Tenuate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  5. tenuate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  6. Tenuate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. tenuate: FreeDictionary.org
  8. Tenuate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Tenuate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Tenuate: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (tenuate)

▸ verb:  (archaic, transitive) To make thin; to attenuate.

Similar:
attenuate, dilute, reattenuate, extenuate, thin, deattenuate, obtund, diminish, taper, abate, more...

Opposite:
intensify, strengthen, amplify, fortify

Types:
diethylpropion, phendimetrazine, benzphetamine, mazindol, more...

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Similar:
attenuate, dilute, reattenuate, extenuate, thin, deattenuate, obtund, diminish, taper, abate, more...

Opposite:
intensify, strengthen, amplify, fortify

Types:
diethylpropion, phendimetrazine, benzphetamine, mazindol, more...



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