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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, concentration, quality or purity
   "a dilute solution"; "dilute acetic acid";
   - diluted

Derived forms: diluting, dilutes, diluted

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

Type of: corrupt, spoil, weaken

Antonym: undiluted

Encyclopedia: Dilute