extenuate
extenuate is a 9-letter English word with 6 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To make thin or slender; to draw out so as to lessen the thickness. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. To make thin or slender; to draw out so as to lessen the thickness.
- transitive verb. To lessen; to palliate; to lessen or weaken the force of; to diminish the conception of, as crime, guilt, faults, ills, accusations, etc.; -- opposed to aggravate.
- transitive verb. To lower or degrade; to detract from.
- intransitive verb. To become thinner; to make excuses; to advance palliating considerations.
- adjective. Thin; slender.
- verb. lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of
"The circumstances extenuate the crime"
Synonyms
Common word forms
extenuated, extenuates, extenuating
Words from these letters
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