to dilute

Examples

• All

• Always dilute concentrated juice with water before serving it to children.

• You may need to dilute it to award shares to new investors.

  The Social Network (2010)

• I'm just going to dilute it with water.

• And you just mix it, dilute it down with water, and then you have the flavoured drink.

• The water actually dilutes it, so... water's probably the safest place to be.

  Short Cuts (1993)

• Within the week, the Banco Central had diluted its new reserve requirements.

  Academic text (1996)

• Sewage from northern residential areas usually is diluted and has a low concentration.

  Academic text (1998)

• The Safe Water System utilizes diluted chlorine to purify the water.

  Academic text (2011)

• "Picard poured a little nectar into a glass and diluted it with water.

  Fiction book (1992)

• And all the freshwater came unexpectedly, tearing up the Gulf of St. Lawrence here and diluting the cold water, dense, salty, making it sweeter and lighter, so it stopped sinking.

  An Inconvenient Truth (2006)

Synonyms

C

to cut

vsto dilute

• Specialized

106 6.0

To make a liquid less strong by adding another liquid

uses water or a solvent rather than any random additive

T

to thin

vsto dilute

38 1.4

To become less thick or crowded, for example a crowd

applies specifically to reducing concentration by adding solvent, not overall thickness

W

to water down

vsto dilute

• Informal

14 4.0

To make something less strong by adding liquid or removing strong parts

is literal for liquids rather than also for ideas or statements

A

to attenuate

vsto dilute

9 7.9

To make something weaker, like sound or light

refers specifically to weakening liquids by adding solvent, not generalized weakening

T

to thin out

vsto dilute

2 3.7

Make a drink weaker by adding water or another liquid

is used mainly for liquids or solutions rather than broad weakening

Antonyms

C

to concentrate

83 4.4

To make a liquid thicker by removing water

How Dilute

to adulterate

• Specialized

5 8.2

to water down

• Informal

14 4.0

to dilute

28 3.5

to thin

38 1.4

to weaken

305 2.8

Surface Forms

Etymology