| 单词 | extenuate |
| 释义 | extenuate I. extenuate obsolete II. ex·ten·u·ate 1. a. archaic < not by extenuating or by exaggerating the damage — Isaac Taylor > : underrate, underestimate b. (1) < they neither concealed nor extenuated their crime > or by affording a basis for excuses < the fact of his extreme youth certainly extenuated the act > : mitigate (2) < he thought it necessary to extenuate the length of time he kept the dinner on the table — Charles Lamb > c. obsolete < every man seemed wholly bent to extenuate the sum which fell to his share — Henry Fielding > 2. archaic a. < peasants were … extenuated by hunger — W.E.H.Lecky > b. < in friendship the individual element is intensified, in fraternity it is extenuated — W.C.Brownell > 3. a. obsolete b. archaic 4. archaic < extenuating the air — Samuel Vince > : thin out : attenuate, rarefy Synonyms: see palliate, thin |
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