Crossword-Solution: EXTENUATE 9 letters, 40 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

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Word Word Type Definition
Extenuate v. t. To make thin or slender; to draw out so as to lessen
the thickness.
Extenuate v. t. 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.
Extenuate v. t. To lower or degrade; to detract from.
Extenuate v. i. To become thinner; to make excuses; to advance
palliating considerations.
Extenuate a. Thin; slender.

We have 40 clues for the answer “EXTENUATE”

Clue Answers
make exceptions 1 answer
make (an offence or fault) less blameworthy 1 answer
Lessen the seriousness of 1 answer
MAKE thin (arch.) 1 answer
Render less serious by giving excuses. 1 answer
MAKE weak (arch.) 1 answer
make allowance for 9 answers
blanch over 14 answers
enfeeble 16 answers
Debilitate 16 answers
gloss over 18 answers
Dilute 18 answers
Sugar-coat 19 answers
Lighten 26 answers
Palliate 26 answers
Varnish 28 answers
Veneer 31 answers
Starve 31 answers
Enervate 33 answers
Vindicate 34 answers
exculpate 37 answers
Justify 39 answers
Whitewash 40 answers
denature 41 answers
Cut Back 43 answers
Assuage 46 answers
Soften 48 answers
whiten 48 answers
Mitigate 50 answers
Dwindle 52 answers
Neutralise 56 answers
Neutralize 58 answers
Diminish 59 answers
Gloss 62 answers
Lessen 64 answers
Weaken 65 answers
Excuse 66 answers
Subdue 67 answers
Loosen 73 answers
Water 93 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with EXTENUATE (5)

Hee ended, and the heav’nly Audience loud Sung _Halleluia_, as the sound of Seas, Through multitude that sung: Just are thy ways, Righteous are thy Decrees on all thy Works; Who can extenuate thee? Next, to the Son, Destin’d restorer of Mankind, by whom New Heav’n and Earth shall to the Ages rise, Or down from Heav’n descend.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
Looked at so, is it not, with all its tragic features, wonderfully idyllic, with great beauty of scene and circumstance? And will you please to observe that almost all that is ugly is in the whites? I’ll apologise for Papa Randal if you like; but if I told you the whole truth—for I did extenuate there!—and he seemed to me essential as a figure, and essential as a pawn in the game, Wiltshire’s disgust for him being one of the small, efficient motives in the story.
Vailima Letters Robert Louis Stevenson 2013
Melbury feeling that he had done so good an action in coming as almost to extenuate his previous arbitrary conduct to nothing, went home; and Giles was left alone to the suspense of waiting for a reply from the divinity who shaped the ends of the Hintock population.
The Woodlanders Thomas Hardy 1996
Nor can we extenuate the valour of ancient martyrs, who contemned death in the uncomfortable scene of their lives, and in their decrepit martyrdoms did probably lose not many months of their days, or parted with life when it was scarce worth the living.
Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend Thomas Browne 2019
The zealous Hilary, 64 who, from the peculiar hardships of his situation, was inclined to extenuate rather than to aggravate the errors of the Oriental clergy, declares, that in the wide extent of the ten provinces of Asia, to which he had been banished, there could be found very few prelates who had preserved the knowledge of the true God.
The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Edward Gibbon 1996

Quotes with EXTENUATE (2)

It was part of his nature to extenuate nothing and live on as one of his own worst accusers.
Thomas Hardy The Mayor of Casterbridge
Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.
William Wilberforce Real Christianity
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Appears in: NYT, Universal.

Used 2 times in crossword archives (1955–2012).