dilute
/daɪˈlut/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.18 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To cause the value of individual shares or the stake of a shareholder to decrease by increasing the total number of shares.
Transitive verb
adj
Example Sentences
- "Mix their watery store / With the chyle's current, and dilute it more."
- "For if these Colours be diluted and weakened by the Mixture of any adventitious light, the distance between the places of the Paper will not be so great."
- "“Stay a little.” “Not another second: language and discussion dilute thought; I will say no more.”"
- "It's healthy to have people in the military who would perhaps rather be somewhere else; they can dilute the more gung-ho military types."
- "Courts have repeatedly struck down Republican-drawn maps on the grounds that they constitute illegal racial gerrymanders designed to dilute the electoral power of Black voters, who overwhelmingly cast Democratic ballots."
- "It dilutes easily."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *lewh₃-, dīlūtus
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /daɪˈlut/
- British English: /daɪˈljuːt/
Usage
Inflected Forms
dilutes (present, singular)
diluting (participle, present)
diluted (participle, past)
diluted (past)
more dilute (comparative)
most dilute (superlative)
dilutes (plural)