dilute

verb

1. (transitive)To make thinner by adding solvent to a solution, especially by adding water.

   “Mix their watery store / With the chyle's current, and dilute it more.”

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

   “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.”

3. (transitive)To cause the value of individual shares or the stake of a shareholder to decrease by increasing the total number of shares.
4. (intransitive)To become attenuated, thin, or weak.

   “It dilutes easily.”

adj

1. Having a low concentration.

   “Clean the panel with a dilute, neutral cleaner.”

2. Weak; reduced in strength by dilution; diluted.
3. Of an animal: having a lighter-coloured coat than is usual.

   “a dilute calico”

   “a cat with a dilute tortoiseshell coat”

noun

1. An animal having a lighter-coloured coat than is usual.

   “On average, blues and other dilutes have weaker coats and skin problems seem more prevalent in the dilutes.”