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extenuate

/ik-sten-yoo-eyt/US // ɪkˈstɛn yuˌeɪt //UK // (ɪkˈstɛnjʊˌeɪt) //

天真无邪,天真无邪的,全心全意,全心全意的

Related Words

palliate缓和,缓和一下,缓解,姑息minimize减少reduce减少,降低,削减,缩小soften变得柔和,变得柔软,变得柔和了,变得柔和起来excuse托辞,借口,托词,原谅我qualify有资格,有资格的,符合条件,符合条件的decrease减少,降低,下降,下跌diminish减弱,贬低,减轻,削弱downplay淡化,轻描淡写,淡化影响,贬低moderate温和的,温和,温文尔雅,温顺的justify证明,证明是正确的,圆满解决,圆满完成make allowances容许,放宽条件,谅解,宽限

Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    ex·ten·u·at·ed, ex·ten·u·at·ing.

    • : to represent as less serious: to extenuate a crime.
    • : to serve to make seem less serious.
    • : to underestimate, underrate, or make light of: Do not extenuate the difficulties we are in.
    • : Archaic. to make thin, lean, or emaciated.to reduce the consistency or density of.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verblessen, mitigate
Forms: extenuating
Synonyms
decrease减少,降低,下降,下跌diminish减弱,贬低,减轻,削弱downplay淡化,轻描淡写,淡化影响,贬低excuse托辞,借口,托词,原谅我justify证明,证明是正确的,圆满解决,圆满完成minimize减少moderate温和的,温和,温文尔雅,温顺的palliate缓和,缓和一下,缓解,姑息qualify有资格,有资格的,符合条件,符合条件的reduce减少,降低,削减,缩小soften变得柔和,变得柔软,变得柔和了,变得柔和起来make allowances容许,放宽条件,谅解,宽限

Examples

  • They attempted to extenuate their crimes by the hardships they had suffered, but in vain.

  • This reflection may extenuate my faults in their effects, but it must aggravate them in their source.

  • The Lords' committee extenuate the presumption that either knights or burgesses sat in any of these parliaments.

  • If some dozen of the conniving deputies had been sent there, Warden Tapp might have had less to extenuate.

  • But whether he is to be believed or not, the fact that four of the prisoners went down in irons is impossible to extenuate.

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