attenuate vs feature

attenuate

verb
  • To rarefy. 

  • To reduce the amplitude of an electrical, radio, or optical signal. 

  • To weaken. 

  • To reduce in size, force, value, amount, or degree. 

  • To become thin or fine; to grow less. 

  • (of a beer) To become less dense as a result of the conversion of sugar to alcohol. 

  • To reduce the virulence of a bacterium or virus. 

  • To make thinner, as by physically reshaping, starving, or decaying. 

adj
  • Gradually tapering into a petiole-like extension toward the base. 

feature

verb
  • To star, to contain. 

  • To appear, to make an appearance. 

  • To ascribe the greatest importance to something within a certain context. 

noun
  • An individual measurable property or characteristic of a phenomenon being observed; the input of a model. 

  • A beneficial capability of a piece of software. 

  • Any of the physical constituents of the face (eyes, nose, etc.). 

  • The act of being featured in a piece of music. 

  • Characteristic forms or shapes of parts. For example, a hole, boss, slot, cut, chamfer, or fillet. 

  • A long, prominent article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently used technically to distinguish content from news. 

  • Something discerned from physical evidence that helps define, identify, characterize, and interpret an archeological site. 

  • An important or main item. 

  • The elements into which linguistic units can be broken down. 

  • The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty, or an essay; any marked peculiarity or characteristic. 

How often have the words attenuate and feature occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )