dilute

1. (transitive) To make thinner by adding solvent to a solution, especially by adding water.Examples: "Mix their watery store / With the chyle's current, and dilute it more."transitive

2. (transitive) To weaken, especially by adding a foreign substance.Examples: "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."transitive

3. (transitive, stock market) To cause the value of individual shares or the stake of a shareholder to decrease by increasing the total number of shares.transitive

4. (intransitive) To become attenuated, thin, or weak.Examples: "It dilutes easily."intransitive