extenuative 的定义
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.
extenuative 近义词
等同于 euphemistic
等同于 saving grace
extenuative 的近义词 3 个
更多extenuative例句
- 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.