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extenuate

werkwoord

1 extenuate

Lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of:
— The circumstances extenuate the crime.

synoniemen: mitigate, palliate.

Roget 160: be weak etc. adj.; drop, crumble, give way, totter, tremble, shake, halt, limp, fade, languish, decline, ... meer laten zien

Roget 36: decrease, diminish, lessen; abridge etc. (shorten) 201; shrink etc. (contract) 195; drop off, fall off, tail off; ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: verminderen, verzachten, verdunnen, mitigeren


zelfstandig naamwoord

Roget 937: vindication, justification, warrant; exoneration, exculpation; acquittal etc. 970; whitewashing.    extenuation; palliation, palliative; softening, mitigation.    ... meer laten zien

Moby betekeniswoordenboek: abate, allay, alleviate, allow for, apologize, assuage, attemper, attenuate, bank the fire, bate, blunt, chasten, color, constrain, control, cramp, cripple, damp, dampen, de-emphasize ... meer laten zien.

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