Definisjon av extenuate

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extenuate - lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of; "The circumstances extenuate the crime"
palliate, mitigate
apologise, apologize, justify, rationalise, rationalize, excuse acknowledge faults or shortcomings or failing; "I apologized for being late"; "He apologized for the many typoes"
jurisprudence, law the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do
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Verb

extenuate - To make thin or slender; to draw out so as to lessen the thickness.
extenuate - To become thinner.
extenuate - 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.
extenuate - To lower or degrade; to detract from.

Verb

  • Infinitiv: (to) extenuate
  • Presens: extenuate / extenuates
  • Preteritum: extenuated
  • Perfektum: (have) extenuated

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