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Meanings of extenuate in English
Synonyms
Examples for "mitigate"
Examples for "mitigate"
1
However, safety and health measures to mitigate COVID-19 risks would be followed.
2
We need new financing mechanisms and new technologies to mitigate that risk.
3
He also examined governmental efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change.
4
Question is, then, how best to mitigate the damage of it all?
5
Police even proposed holding bias training with officers to mitigate that risk.
1
Radiation therapy has been used to improve local control and palliate symptoms.
2
Perhaps you think to palliate my fault thus in my own eyes.
3
Treatment strategies are designed to limit tumor progression and palliate hormonal syndromes.
4
This is not an attempt to palliate the foolishness of Billy Folsom.
5
He did not disguise it to himself, nor attempt to palliate it.
Usage of extenuate in English
1
I do not defend his errors; I only seek to extenuate them.
2
Soon thy Lord will extenuate thy straitened circumstances even in this world.
3
Soon thy Lord will extenuate thy straightened circumstances even in this world.
4
Her sins are grievous and she does not deny or extenuate them.
5
He did not attempt to excuse himself, or to extenuate his fault.
6
For charity is wont to extenuate faults, justice doth never exaggerate them.
7
She sought to explain and extenuate the spending of every penny.
8
He felt it useless to quibble or to try to extenuate the facts.
9
Theft is theft, whatever the circumstances that seem to extenuate it.
10
I do not want to excite your pity or to extenuate my sin.
11
I do not extenuate my own offences, but I will not criminate others.
12
To explain would be to extenuate, and that we wish not to do.
13
Nothing did he extenuate, but he wronged neither Polly nor himself.
14
It was not Sally Owen's way to extenuate errors of commission or omission.
15
What shall I say to extenuate the misconduct of last night?
16
The lover should be present, to confute, to extenuate, or to verify the charges.
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United Kingdom
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