An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
DILUTED
diluted, dilute
(adjective) reduced in strength or concentration or quality or purity; “diluted alcohol”; “a dilute solution”; “dilute acetic acid”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
diluted
simple past tense and past participle of dilute
Adjective
diluted (comparative more diluted, superlative most diluted)
That has had something added in order to dilute it.
Antonyms
• concentrated
Anagrams
• Luddite
Source: Wiktionary
Di*lut"ed, a.
Definition: Reduced in strength; thin; weak.
– Di*lut"ed*ly, adv.
DILUTE
Di*lute", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Diluted; p. pr. & vb. n. Diluting.] Etym: [L. dilutus, p. p. of diluere to wash away, dilute; di- = dis- + luere, equiv. to lavare to wash, lave. See Lave, and cf. Deluge.]
1. To make thinner or more liquid by admixture with something; to thin and dissolve by mixing. Mix their watery store. With the chyle's current, and dilute it more. Blackmore.
2. To diminish the strength, flavor, color, etc., of, by mixing; to reduce, especially by the addition of water; to temper; to attenuate; to weaken. Lest these colors should be diluted and weakened by the mixture of any adventitious light. Sir I. Newton.
Di*lute", v. i.
Definition: To become attenuated, thin, or weak; as, it dilutes easily.
Di*lute", a. Etym: [L. dilutus, p. p.]
Definition: Diluted; thin; weak. A dilute and waterish exposition. Hopkins.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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