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extenuate    音标拼音: [ɪkst'ɛnju,et]
vt. 减轻,使人原谅

减轻,使人原谅

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.
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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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Extenuate \Ex*ten"u*ate\, v. i.
To become thinner; to make excuses; to advance palliating
considerations. --Burke.
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Extenuate \Ex*ten"u*ate\, a. [L. extenuatus, p. p.]
Thin; slender. [Obs.] --Huloet.
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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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