Definition of Extenuated

1. Verb. (past of ''extenuate'') ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Extenuated

1. extenuate [v] - See also: extenuate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Extenuated

extensor hallucis longus
extensor indicis
extensor indicis proprius
extensor muscle
extensor muscle of fingers
extensor muscle of little finger
extensor pollicis brevis
extensor pollicis longus
extensor retinaculum
extensors
extensure
extent
extention
extents
extenuate
extenuated (current term)
extenuates
extenuating
extenuating circumstance
extenuating circumstances
extenuatingly
extenuation
extenuations
extenuator
extenuators
extenuatory
exterior
exterior-angle
exterior angle
exterior angles

Literary usage of Extenuated

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Quarterly Review by Robert Walsh (1835)
"... but it is one which should be reprobated rather than extenuated—which should be shown no mercy in order that it may be eradicated as soon as possible. ..."

2. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard (1919)
"He could not conceive how this could be extenuated. Another reason why this emphatically was a libel was that it was said that Mr. Adams had taken to his ..."

3. The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature by Rufus Edmonds Shapley (1884)
"... whose modesty had extenuated or concealed a great part of his merit. As every person called up made exactly the same appearance he had done in the world ..."

4. The Homoeopathic domestic medicine by Joseph Laurie (1883)
"causee as engendering disease, are to be removed, modified, extenuated, or even eradicated, by judicious ..."

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