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- Dictionaryex·ten·u·ate/ikˈstenyəˌwāt/
verb
- 1. cause (an offense) to seem less serious: "even the fact that you once helped to save my life could not extenuate your offense"
- 2. make (someone) thin: literary "his whole frame was extenuated by hunger and fatigue"
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