extenuate
verb (used with object)
to represent (a fault, offense, etc.) as less serious.
will extenuate
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future tenseof extenuate.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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But I humbly beg leave to lay before your Excellency some particulars in the circumstance of my guilt, which, I hope, will extenuate it in some measure.
From Rob Roy — Volume 01 by Sir Walter Scott
Soon thy Lord will extenuate thy straightened circumstances even in this world.
From Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas by `Abdu'l-Bahá
Soon thy Lord will extenuate thy straitened circumstances even in this world.
From Bahá’í World Faith by `Abdu'l-Bahá
