Word Meanings - EXTENUATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

thin, loosen, weaken; ex out + tenuare to make thin, tenuis thin. See 1. To make thin or slender; to draw out so as to lessen the thickness. His body behind the head becomes broad, from whence it is again extenuated all the way to the tail. Grew.

Additional info about word: EXTENUATE

thin, loosen, weaken; ex out + tenuare to make thin, tenuis thin. See 1. To make thin or slender; to draw out so as to lessen the thickness. His body behind the head becomes broad, from whence it is again extenuated all the way to the tail. Grew. 2. 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. But fortune there extenuates the crime. Dryden. Let us extenuate, conceal, adorn the unpleasing reality. I. Taylor. 3. To lower or degrade; to detract from. Who can extenuate thee Milton. Syn. -- To palliate; to mitigate. See Palliate.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EXTENUATE)

• Cloak
• Conceal
• disguise
• mask
• veil
• hide
• cover
• palliate
• screen
• mitigate
• extenuate
• Excuse
• Exculpate
• absolve
• pardon
• forgive
• overlook
• condone
• i emit
• indulge
• justify
• vindicate
• defend
• acquit
• release
• exempt
• exonerate
• Mince
• Attenuate
• comminute
• Palliate
• conceal
• soften
• soothe
• gloze

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of EXTENUATE)

• Expose
• reveal
• betray
• exhibit
• produce
• mis-suffice
• Bind
• constrain
• confine
• shackle
• fetter
• yoke
• Open
• expose
• surrender
• aggravate
• exaggerate
• prosecute

Related words: (words related to EXTENUATE)

• ACQUIT
  Acquitted; set free; rid of. Shak.
• EXCUSEMENT
  Excuse. Gower.
• ATTENUATE; ATTENUATED
  1. Made thin or slender. 2. Made thin or less viscid; rarefied. Bacon.
• PARDON
  A release, by a sovereign, or officer having jurisdiction, from the penalties of an offense, being distinguished from amenesty, which is a general obliteration and canceling of a particular line of past offenses. Syn. -- Forgiveness; remission.
• CONFINER
  One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
• EXHIBITION
  The act of administering a remedy. (more info) 1. The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display. 2. That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art,
• RELEASE
  To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
• SCREENINGS
  The refuse left after screening sand, coal, ashes, etc.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• EXHIBITIONER
  One who has a pension or allowance granted for support. A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital. G. Eliot.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• COVERLET
  The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
• CONCEALED
  Hidden; kept from sight; secreted. -- Con*ceal"ed*ly (, adv. -- Con*ceal"ed*ness, n. Concealed weapons , dangerous weapons so carried on the person as to be knowingly or willfully concealed from sight, -- a practice forbidden by statute.
• EXCUSE
  1. To free from accusation, or the imputation of fault or blame; to clear from guilt; to release from a charge; to justify by extenuating a fault; to exculpate; to absolve; to acquit. A man's persuasion that a thing is duty, will not excuse him
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• COVERCLE
  A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
• COMMINUTE
  To reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth. Pennant. Comminuted fracture. See under Fracture.
• INDULGEMENT
  Indulgence. Wood.
• FORGIVER
  One who forgives. Johnson.
• CONSTRAINTIVE
  Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• INCONCEALABLE
  Not concealable. "Inconcealable imperfections." Sir T. Browne.