extenuate
verb (used with object)
to represent (a fault, offense, etc.) as less serious.
extenuated
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past participleof extenuate.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof extenuate.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
extenuateverb (used with object)to represent (a fault, offense, etc.) as less serious.
Example Sentences
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Hooker’s problems have been particularly extenuated and traumatic, especially for a vaulter who had the skill and composure to set an Olympic record of 19-6½ at the 2008 Beijing Games.
From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2012
One is extenuated and the other extended; one is invisible the other is visible.
From The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 7, July, 1880 by Aaron Walker
A black Pomeranian, extenuated by the heat and the fatigues of digestion, slept before the blaze.
From Mortal Coils by Aldous Huxley
So the Beverly Park incident, and all other incidents, if true to the last syllable of the defense testimony, merely in this case extenuated the motive on November 5th.
From The Everett massacre A history of the class struggle in the lumber industry by Walker C. Smith
But vices so numerous and great cannot be extenuated.
From Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood by John Nicholas Lenker
