- verbextenuate (verb) · extenuates (third person present) · extenuated (past tense) · extenuated (past participle) · extenuating (present participle)
- cause (an offense) to seem less serious:"even the fact that you once helped to save my life could not extenuate your offense"
- literarymake (someone) thin:"his whole frame was extenuated by hunger and fatigue" · "drawings of extenuated figures"
Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘make thin’): from Latin extenuat- ‘made thin’, from the verb extenuare (based on tenuis ‘thin’).
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- Learn more:✕This summary was generated using AI based on multiple online sources. To view the original source information, use the "Learn more" links.The meaning of EXTENUATE is to lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of (something, such as a fault or offense) by making partial excuses : mitigate.www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/extenuateverb (used with object), ex·ten·u·at·ed, ex·ten·u·at·ing. to represent (a fault, offense, etc.) as less serious: to extenuate a crime. to serve to make (a fault, offense, etc.) seem less serious.www.dictionary.com/browse/extenuate
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