to make the strength of a mixture weaker, less concentrated; for example, by adding more water to a pesticide mixture
If a liquid is diluted or dilutes, it is added to or mixes with water or another liquid, and becomes weaker. If you give your baby juice, dilute it well with cooled, boiled water The liquid is then diluted The poisons seeping from Hanford's contaminated land quickly dilute in the water. + dilution di·lu·tion ditches dug for sewage dilution
A dilute liquid is very thin and weak, usually because it has had water added to it. a dilute solution of bleach
corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones; "adulterate liquor"
To make thinner or more liquid by admixture with something; to thin and dissolve by mixing
reduced in strength or concentration or quality or purity; "diluted alcohol"; "a dilute solution"; "dilute acetic acid"