(~s, diluting, ~d)
1.
If a liquid is ~d or ~s, it is added to or mixes with water or another liquid, and becomes weaker.
If you give your baby juice, ~ it well with cooled, boiled water...
The liquid is then ~d...
The poisons seeping from Hanford’s contaminated land quickly ~ in the water.
VERB: V n prep, be V-ed, V, also V n
dilution
...ditches dug for sewage dilution.
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2.
A ~ liquid is very thin and weak, usually because it has had water added to it.
...a ~ solution of bleach.
ADJ: usu ADJ n
3.
If someone or something ~s a belief, quality, or value, they make it weaker and less effective.
There was a clear intention to ~ black voting power...
VERB: V n
dilution
...a potentially devastating dilution of earnings per share.
N-UNCOUNT: oft N of n