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   Ex·ten·u·ate

   /ikˈstenyəˌwāt/

   

   verb

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

   Word Origin late Middle English (in the sense ‘make thin’): from Latin extenuat- ‘made thin’, from the verb extenuare (based on tenuis ‘thin’).

   Derivatives

   • 1. extenuatory adjective

   Scrabble Points: 16

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