tenuō āvī, ātus, āre tenuis, to make thin, make slender, wear away, dilute, rarefy, attenuate: adsiduo vomer tenuatur ab usu, O.: Ipsā autem macie tenuant armenta volentes, make lean, V.: tenuatum corpus, H.: se in undas, dissolve, O.: vocis via est tenuata, contracted, O.: Luna tenuata, i. e. waning, O.

—Fig., to make small, lessen, diminish, reduce, weaken, enfeeble: Utque meae famam tenuent oblivia culpae, O.: virīs amoris, O.: Magna modis tenuare parvis, to degrade, H.