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1. Lessen the strength or flavour of a solution or mixture
   "dilute bourbon"
   - thin, thin out, reduce, cut
    
2. Corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
   "dilute liquor"
   - load, adulterate, stretch, debase

1. Reduced in strength or concentration or quality or purity
   "a dilute solution"; "dilute acetic acid"
   - diluted

Derived forms: dilutes, diluting, diluted

See also: cut, dilutant, dilution, thinned, washy, watery, weak, weakened, white

Type of: corrupt, spoil, weaken

Encyclopedia: Dilute