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Extenuate   /ɪkstˈɛnjuˌeɪt/   Listen
verb
Extenuate  v. t.  (past & past part. extenuated; pres. part. extenuating)  
1.
To make thin or slender; to draw out so as to lessen the thickness. "His body behind the head becomes broad, from whence it is again extenuated all the way to the tail."
2.
To lessen; to palliate; to lessen or weaken the force of; to diminish the conception of, as crime, guilt, faults, ills, accusations, etc.; opposed to aggravate. "But fortune there extenuates the crime." "Let us extenuate, conceal, adorn the unpleasing reality."
3.
To lower or degrade; to detract from. (Obs.) "Who can extenuate thee?"
Synonyms: To palliate; to mitigate. See Palliate.


Extenuate  v. i.  To become thinner; to make excuses; to advance palliating considerations.


adjective
Extenuate  adj.  Thin; slender. (Obs.)





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"Extenuate" Quotes from Famous Books



... O troubled soul, from whom the vision of Christ is veiled. It is more than likely that some undetected or unconfessed sin is shutting out the rays of the true sun. Excuse nothing, extenuate nothing, omit nothing. Do not speak of mistakes of judgment, but of lapses of heart and will. Do not be content with a general confession; be particular and specific. Drag each evil thing forth before God's judgment ...
— John the Baptist • F. B. Meyer
... attends her: She will infuse true motion in a stone, Put glowing fire in an icy soul, Stuff peasants' bosoms with proud Caesar's spleen, Pour rich device into an empty brain: Bring youth to folly's gate: there train him in, And after all, extenuate his sin. Well, I will not go, I am resolved for that. Go, carry it again: yet stay: yet do too, I will defer it till some ...
— Every Man In His Humour • Ben Jonson
... would, indeed, be difficult to deny or extenuate the appalling truth of Mr. Sinclair's ...
— Sylvia's Marriage • Upton Sinclair
... duty as reviewers, if he altogether escaped it. In all charity, we are bound, for that matter, to give him the full benefit of the speed he has exhibited, in so far as it may serve to explain, if it cannot extenuate, the wretched manner in which he has performed his ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume V, Number 29, March, 1860 - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various
... a syllable of it,' protested Lady Kirkbank, dabbing her brow with a handkerchief steeped in eau de Cologne. 'A vile fabrication of Montesma's, who wanted to blacken poor Smithson's character in order to extenuate ...
— Phantom Fortune, A Novel • M. E. Braddon


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