extenuate
extenuate is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 4 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.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. But fortune there extenuates the crime. Dryden. Let us extenuate, conceal, adorn the unpleasing reality. I. Taylor.
- 2.To lower or degrade; to detract from. [Obs.] Who can extenuate thee Milton. See Palliate.
- 3.To become thinner; to make excuses; to advance palliating considerations. Burke.
- 4.Thin; slender. [Obs.] Huloet.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Synonyms (Webster's 1913)
- to mitigate
- to palliate
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abate
- abatement
- abridge
- abridgment
- and
- anticlimax
- attenuate
- away
- bate
- coarctation
- contract
- contraction
- crumble
- decay
- declension
- decline
- decrease
- decreasing
- decrement
- depreciate
- depreciation
- dequantitate
- descend
- descent
- deterioration
- die
- diminish
- diminution
- discount
- drop
- dwarf
- ebb
- extenuation
- fall
- fine
- fritter
- halo
- head
- hide
- into
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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