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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
extenuating
adj 1: partially excusing or justifying; "extenuating
circumstances"
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
extenuating \extenuating\ adj.
serving or tending to reduce the severity of guilt or
blameworthiness; as, extenuating circumstances.
Syn: mitigating.
[WordNet 1.5]
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Extenuate \Ex*ten"u*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Extenuated; p.
pr. & vb. n. Extenuating.] [L. extenuatus, p. p. of
extenuare to make thin, loosen, weaken; ex out + tenuare to
make thin, tenuis thin. See Tenuity.]
1. To make thin or slender; to draw out so as to lessen the
thickness.
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His body behind the head becomes broad, from whence
it is again extenuated all the way to the tail.
--Grew.
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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.
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But fortune there extenuates the crime. --Dryden.
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Let us extenuate, conceal, adorn the unpleasing
reality. --I. Taylor.
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3. To lower or degrade; to detract from. [Obs.]
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Who can extenuate thee? --Milton.
Syn: To palliate; to mitigate. See Palliate.
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Thesaurus Results for Extenuating:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
altering, apologetic, assuasive, bounding, diminishing, excusatory, excusing, extenuative, extenuatory, justificatory, justifying, lenitive, lessening, limitative, limiting, mitigating, mitigative, mitigatory, modificatory, modifying, modulatory, palliative, qualificative, qualificatory, qualifying, refuting, rehabilitative, restricting, restrictive, softening, tempering, vindicative, vindicatory |
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