Usually means: Make less concentrated by adding.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. dilute: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. dilute: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dilute: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dilute: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dilute: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dilute, dilute: Wordnik
  7. dilute: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dilute: Wiktionary
  9. dilute: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dilute: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dilute: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. dilute: Dictionary.com
  13. dilute: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. dilute: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Dilute (band), Dilute: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Dilute: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. dilute: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. dilute: Rhymezone
  19. dilute: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. dilute: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. dilute: Free Dictionary
  22. dilute: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. dilute: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. dilute: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dilute: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. dilute: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  4. dilute: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. General Chemistry Online (No longer online)

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cat Terms (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To make thinner by adding solvent to a solution, especially by adding water.
verb:  (transitive) To weaken, especially by adding a foreign substance.
verb:  (transitive, stock market) To cause the value of individual shares or the stake of a shareholder to decrease by increasing the total number of shares.
verb:  (intransitive) To become attenuated, thin, or weak.
adjective:  Having a low concentration.
adjective:  Weak; reduced in strength by dilution; diluted.
adjective:  Of an animal: having a lighter-coloured coat than is usual.
noun:  An animal having a lighter-coloured coat than is usual.

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