extenuative
/ik-sten-yoo-eyt/US // ɪkˈstɛn yuˌeɪt //UK // (ɪkˈstɛnjʊˌeɪt) //
减刑,减刑的,减刑性的,减轻处罚
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Definitions
v.有主动词 verb
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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
as ineuphemistic
as insaving grace
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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