dilute

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• Received-Pronunciation: /daɪˈljuːt/
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• Canada, General-American: /daɪˈlut/
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• Canada, General-American: /dɪˈlut/
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• Australian: /dɑeˈlʉt/
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• New-Zealand: [dɑe̯ˈlʉt]
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• rhymes with -uːt
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• CMU ARPABET: D AY0 L UW1 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: D IH0 L UW1 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Latin dīlūtus, from dīluere (“to wash away, dissolve, cause to melt, dilute”), from dī-, dis- (“away, apart”) + luere (“to wash”). See lave, and compare deluge.

97 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: разреден (razreden) — having a low concentration
• Finnish: laimea — having a low concentration
• Finnish: mieto — having a low concentration
• French: dilué — having a low concentration
• French: diluée — having a low concentration
• German: verdünnt — having a low concentration
• Hebrew: מדולל (medulal) — having a low concentration
• Hungarian: híg — having a low concentration
• Icelandic: þynntur — having a low concentration
• Icelandic: þynnt — having a low concentration
• Latin: dilutus — having a low concentration
• Māori: waimeha — having a low concentration
• Polish: rozcieńczony — having a low concentration
• Romanian: diluat — having a low concentration
• Russian: разбавленный (razbavlennyj) — having a low concentration
• Russian: разведённый (razvedjónnyj) — having a low concentration
• Tagalog: binantuan — having a low concentration
• Tagalog: malabnaw — having a low concentration
• Finnish: laimennettu — weak
• Finnish: laiha — weak
• French: faible — weak
• German: verwässert — weak
• Hebrew: חלש (chalash) — weak
• Hebrew: דל (dal) — weak
• Icelandic: veikur — weak
• Irish: caol — weak
• Latin: imbecillus — weak
• Latin: mollis — weak
• Arabic: خَفَّفَ (ḵaffafa) — to add more of a solvent to a solution; especially to add more water
• Bulgarian: разреждам (razreždam) — to add more of a solvent to a solution; especially to add more water
• Bulgarian: разводнявам (razvodnjavam) — to add more of a solvent to a solution; especially to add more water
• Catalan: diluir — to add more of a solvent to a solution; especially to add more water
• Chinese Mandarin: 稀釋 /稀释 (xīshì) — to add more of a solvent to a solution; especially to add more water
• Czech: ředit — to add more of a solvent to a solution; especially to add more water
• Czech: zředit — to add more of a solvent to a solution; especially to add more water
• Dutch: verdunnen — to add more of a solvent to a solution; especially to add more water
• Finnish: laimentaa — to add more of a solvent to a solution; especially to add more water
• Finnish: ohentaa — to add more of a solvent to a solution; especially to add more water
• French: diluer — to add more of a solvent to a solution; especially to add more water
• French: couper — to add more of a solvent to a solution; especially to add more water
• Galician: diluír — to add more of a solvent to a solution; especially to add more water
• German: verdünnen — to add more of a solvent to a solution; especially to add more water
• Greek: αραιώνω (araióno) — to add more of a solvent to a solution; especially to add more water
• Hebrew: דילל (dilél) — to add more of a solvent to a solution; especially to add more water
• Hungarian: hígít — to add more of a solvent to a solution; especially to add more water
• Icelandic: þynna — to add more of a solvent to a solution; especially to add more water
• Italian: diluire — to add more of a solvent to a solution; especially to add more water
• Japanese: 薄める (usumeru) — to add more of a solvent to a solution; especially to add more water
• Japanese: 希釈する (kishaku suru) — to add more of a solvent to a solution; especially to add more water
• Northern Kurdish: ron — to add more of a solvent to a solution; especially to add more water
• Latin: diluere — to add more of a solvent to a solution; especially to add more water
• Malagasy: mampihena — to add more of a solvent to a solution; especially to add more water
• Malay: mencair — to add more of a solvent to a solution; especially to add more water
• Māori: waimeha — to add more of a solvent to a solution; especially to add more water
• Polish: rozcieńczać — to add more of a solvent to a solution; especially to add more water
• Portuguese: diluir — to add more of a solvent to a solution; especially to add more water
• Romanian: dilua — to add more of a solvent to a solution; especially to add more water
• Russian: разбавля́ть (razbavljátʹ) — to add more of a solvent to a solution; especially to add more water
• Russian: разба́вить (razbávitʹ) — to add more of a solvent to a solution; especially to add more water
• Serbo-Croatian: razblažiti — to add more of a solvent to a solution; especially to add more water
• Spanish: diluir — to add more of a solvent to a solution; especially to add more water
• Swedish: späda ut — to add more of a solvent to a solution; especially to add more water
• Swedish: tunna ut — to add more of a solvent to a solution; especially to add more water
• Tibetan: སླ་རུ་གཏོང (sla ru gtong) — to add more of a solvent to a solution; especially to add more water
• Tibetan: སླ་པོ་བཟོ (sla po bzo) — to add more of a solvent to a solution; especially to add more water
• Tibetan: སླ་རུ་འགྲོ (sla ru 'gro) — to add more of a solvent to a solution; especially to add more water
• Ukrainian: розбавля́ти (rozbavljáty) — to add more of a solvent to a solution; especially to add more water
• Ukrainian: розба́вити (rozbávyty) — to add more of a solvent to a solution; especially to add more water
• Ukrainian: розво́дити (rozvódyty) — to add more of a solvent to a solution; especially to add more water
• Ukrainian: розвести́ (rozvestý) — to add more of a solvent to a solution; especially to add more water
• Vietnamese: pha loãng — to add more of a solvent to a solution; especially to add more water
• Finnish: laimentaa — to weaken
• Finnish: heikentää — to weaken
• Finnish: jatkaa — to weaken
• Finnish: vesittää — to weaken
• German: verwässern — to weaken
• German: abschwächen — to weaken
• Hebrew: החליש (hekhlísh) — to weaken
• Hebrew: דל—also sp. דלל (dal) — to weaken
• Hebrew: דילדל (dildél) — to weaken
• Icelandic: veikja — to weaken
• Icelandic: þynna — to weaken
• Latin: hebetare — to weaken
• Latin: affligere — to weaken
• Latin: deminuere — to weaken
• Portuguese: diluir — to weaken
• Spanish: diluir — to weaken
• Spanish: desleír — to weaken
• Swedish: späda ut — to weaken
• Swedish: tunna ut — to weaken
• Tibetan: བསྲེ་ལྷད་གཏོང (bsre lhad gtong) — to weaken
• Tibetan: ལྷད་གཏོང (lhad gtong) — to weaken
• Finnish: dilutoida — stock market: to decrease the value of individual shares by increasing the total number of shares
• Finnish: laimentaa — stock market: to decrease the value of individual shares by increasing the total number of shares
• German: verwässern — stock market: to decrease the value of individual shares by increasing the total number of shares
• Russian: размыва́ть (razmyvátʹ) — stock market: to decrease the value of individual shares by increasing the total number of shares
• Swedish: späda ut — stock market: to decrease the value of individual shares by increasing the total number of shares