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Meanings of extenuate in English

Portuguese
paliar
Spanish
atenuar

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

paliar
Usage of extenuate in English
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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Spanish
atenuar
Extenuate through the time
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