Crossword-Solution: EXTENUATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| 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 |
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| 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
EERTA
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Quotes with EXTENUATE (2)
It was part of his nature to extenuate nothing and live on as one of his own worst accusers.
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.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, Universal.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1955–2012).