Extenuation

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act of extenuating or the condition of being extenuated; partial justification.
  • n. A partial excuse.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The act of extenuating or the state of being extenuated; the act of making thin, slender, or lean, or of palliating; diminishing, or lessening; palliation, as of a crime; mitigation, as of punishment.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of axtenuating or the state of being extenuated; the act of making thin, slender, or lean, or of palliating; diminishing, or lessening; palliation, as of a crime; mitigation, as of punishment.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of making thin; the process of growing thin or lean; the losing of flesh.
  • n. The act of making less, or that which makes less, in importance or degree; a diminishing of blame or guilt in fact or in estimation; mitigation; palliation: as, his faults deserve no extenuation; a charitable purpose is no extenuation of crime.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances
  • n. to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    alibi    self-justification    excuse    exculpation    diminution   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    assuagement    palliation    calumniation    exoneration    mitigation   
     
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