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Meanings of extenuate in anglès

portuguès
paliar
espanyol
atenuar

Lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of.

        paliar
        Usage of extenuate in anglès
        1
        I do not defend his errors; I only seek to extenuate them.
        Miriam Monfort / A Novel
        2
        Soon thy Lord will extenuate thy straitened circumstances even in this world.
        Bahá'í World Faith
        3
        Soon thy Lord will extenuate thy straightened circumstances even in this world.
        Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas
        4
        Her sins are grievous and she does not deny or extenuate them.
        The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller
        5
        He did not attempt to excuse himself, or to extenuate his fault.
        Watersprings
        6
        For charity is wont to extenuate faults, justice doth never exaggerate them.
        Sermons on Evil-Speaking
        7
        She sought to explain and extenuate the spending of every penny.
        Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary
        8
        He felt it useless to quibble or to try to extenuate the facts.
        The Street Called Straight
        9
        Theft is theft, whatever the circumstances that seem to extenuate it.
        A Crooked Path: A Novel
        10
        I do not want to excite your pity or to extenuate my sin.
        The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 4
        11
        I do not extenuate my own offences, but I will not criminate others.
        Helen and Arthur; or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel
        12
        To explain would be to extenuate, and that we wish not to do.
        Monsieur de Camors — Volume 2
        13
        Nothing did he extenuate, but he wronged neither Polly nor himself.
        The Town Traveller
        14
        It was not Sally Owen's way to extenuate errors of commission or omission.
        A Hoosier Chronicle
        15
        What shall I say to extenuate the misconduct of last night?
        Wieland; Or, The Transformation: An American Tale
        16
        The lover should be present, to confute, to extenuate, or to verify the charges.
        Arthur Mervyn; Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793
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        espanyol
        atenuar
        Extenuate through the time
        Extenuate across language varieties
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