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    extenuate

    • IPA[ɪkˈstɛnjʊeɪt]

    英式

    • v.
      cause (an offence) to seem less serious；make (someone) thin

    • verb: extenuate, 3rd person present: extenuates, gerund or present participle: extenuating, past tense: extenuated, past participle: extenuated

    • 釋義

    動詞

    • 1. cause (an offence) to seem less serious even the fact that you once helped to save my life could not extenuate your offence
    • 2. literary make (someone) thin his whole frame was extenuated by hunger and fatigue drawings of extenuated figures