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Extenuate /ɪkˈstɛnjueɪt/

📖 Verb 🔥 advanced

Definitions

📝 Make (guilt or an offense) seem less serious or more forgivable.

🇮🇳 दोष कम करना

💡 Simple: To provide excuses that make a crime seem not so bad.

There were extenuating circumstances that explain why he stole the bread.

🔄 Word Forms

extenuating (adjective) extenuation (noun)

✅ Synonyms

❌ Antonyms

🔗 Collocations

extenuating circumstances

🔀 Related Words

📍 Usage Context

Legal and formal.

📚 Grammar Notes

A 'deep link' to **Mitigate**; almost exclusively used with 'circumstances' in law.

From Latin 'ex-' (out) + 'tenuare' (to make thin).

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