Synonyms of attenuating

attenuating

verb

present participle of attenuate

as in reducing

to diminish the price or value of

an investment attenuated by significant inflation over the years

Synonyms & Similar Words

• reducing
• lowering
• depressing
• sinking
• devaluing
• devaluating
• depreciating
• cheapening
• shrinking
• downgrading
• writing down
• writing off
• marking down
• breaking
• debasing
• compressing
• demonetizing
• underestimating
• lessening
• undervaluing
• moderating
• underrating
• contracting
• abridging
• downsizing
• deflating
• underpricing
• dwindling
• de-escalating

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• enhancing
• upgrading
• appreciating
• inflating
• marking up
• increasing
• bloating
• blowing up
• adding
• expanding
• augmenting
• extending
• amplifying
• maximizing
• overestimating
• enlarging
• multiplying
• swelling
• boosting
• escalating
• raising
• heightening
• compounding
• dilating
• overvaluing
• overrating
• overpricing
• upping
• aggrandizing
• ballooning

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of attenuating

Through imposing guilt by association and collective punishments, the North Korean state has spent decades attenuating the relationships through which private anger might be converted into collective action. — Jieun Baek, Foreign Affairs, 30 Oct. 2026

The mouth fiddle is an instrument of extension, attenuating the distinction between our internal organs and those of our making. — Jonathon Keats, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026