dilute
verb (used with object)
to make (a liquid) thinner or weaker by the addition of water or the like.
had diluted
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past perfectof dilute.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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By the time Emmet Sheehan took the mound, the smell had diluted, and the sunshine broke through the haze.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2026
Owner Evangelos Marinakis had diluted his control of the club in preparation for Champions League qualification for both Forest and Olympiakos.
From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2025
Furthermore, Lula revoked policies that had diluted environmental protection, including a measure that encouraged mining on protected indigenous lands.
From Reuters ● Jan. 4, 2023
Working on behalf of the local branch of the N.A.A.C.P. in 1965, Mr. Stokes helped challenge the Ohio legislature’s congressional redistricting, which had diluted black voting strength in Cleveland.
From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2015
And they were little boys, therefore fundamentally uncommunicative, with no gift for intimacy, and worse, they had diluted their identities, for she had never found this missing triangle of flesh.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
