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extenuate 音標拼音: [ɪkst'ɛnju ,et] vt. 減輕,使人原諒 減輕,使人原諒 extenuate v 1: lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of; " The circumstances extenuate the crime" [ synonym: { extenuate}, { palliate}, { mitigate}] 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. [ 1913 Webster] His body behind the head becomes broad, from whence it is again extenuated all the way to the tail. -- Grew. [ 1913 Webster] 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}. [ 1913 Webster] But fortune there extenuates the crime. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] Let us extenuate, conceal, adorn the unpleasing reality. -- I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To lower or degrade; to detract from. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] Who can extenuate thee? -- Milton. Syn: To palliate; to mitigate. See { Palliate}. [ 1913 Webster]
Extenuate \ Ex* ten" u* ate\, v. i. To become thinner; to make excuses; to advance palliating considerations. -- Burke. [ 1913 Webster]
Extenuate \ Ex* ten" u* ate\, a. [ L. extenuatus, p. p.] Thin; slender. [ Obs.] -- Huloet. [ 1913 Webster] 92 Moby Thesaurus words for " extenuate": abate, allay, alleviate, allow for, apologize, assuage, attemper, attenuate, bank the fire, bate, blunt, chasten, color, constrain, control, cramp, cripple, damp, dampen, de- emphasize, deaden, debilitate, devitalize, dilute, diminish, downplay, dull, ease, enervate, enfeeble, eviscerate, exhaust, explain, gloss over, gruel, ignore, justify, keep within bounds, lay, lay low, lenify, lessen, lighten, make allowance for, mince, mitigate, moderate, modulate, obtund, palliate, play down, qualify, rationalize, rattle, reduce, reduce the temperature, remit, restrain, sap, shake, shake up, slacken, slow down, slur over, smother, sober, sober down, soft- pedal, soften, soften up, stifle, subdue, sugarcoat, suppress, tame, temper, tone down, tune down, unbrace, undermine, underplay, unman, unnerve, unstrengthen, unstring, varnish, veneer, water down, weaken, white, whiten, whitewash
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