extenuate

extenuate[ik'stenjueit]

• vt.
  • (用偏袒的辩解或借口)减轻(或企图减轻)(罪行、过错等)的严重性(或程度)，声称(错误、过失等)是轻微的；为…找借口，为…提供理由：

    to extenuate a crime

    用借口来减轻罪行的严重性

  • (具体情节、情况、事实等)能减轻(罪行、过错等)的严重性(或程度)；可以成为减轻(罪行、过错等)的理由；掩饰(错误、过失等)：

    Nothing can extenuate her negligence.

    她的玩忽职守是无法掩饰的。

  • 轻视，藐视，低估，看轻：

    Do not extenuate the difficulties we are in.

    不要低估我们所处的困境。

  • [古语]
    • 使细，使消瘦，使瘦削；使衰弱
    • 使细小；使稀薄，使稀疏
    • 减小，减少；减弱，削弱
• 变形:

  vt.extenuated.extenuating

• against the time
• stage play
• jump at (或rise to, swallow,take) the bait
• bde
• embayment
• Dipneusti
• spindle-shapeds
• pull hitter
• monocontaminated
• blimpishes
• tepees
• dredge sth↔up
• a gaggle of tourists / children etc
• half-light
• presentively
• Leptochoeridae
• to the nines
• dot-sequential
• pileated woodpecker
• mark reading
• Gog and Magog
• have it on one's toes
• two-shot
• indores
• vergeboard
• Aggadic
• copulating
• B -boy
• within an inch of one’s life
• incubator
• Ashbery, John
• bottle-party
• Stirling
• second adventists
• cabstands
• canorously
• crackle breccia
• a bag of waters
• dark nebula
• from one’s teeth
• superscribing
• check into…
• bowman's root
• dafter
• flumes
• hoke
• hammerlocks
• Lamb, Charles
• pass ... by
• fixtured
• fantasyland
• knee frequency
• physicality
• from out to out
• hardpan
• in real earnest
• milk sugar
• after this manner
• ensnare
• candidas
• over the wicket
• elope with
• snap out
• geeky
• upon the receipt of
• tensiometry
• earth wax
• Sylvian sulcus
• phobic reaction
• the short robe
• Ursa Minor system
• transculturals
• partial defferential equation
• torchiest
• permeate through
• faos
• whaling station
• raisonneur
• ventromedial nucleus
• beat the door down
• omnium-gatherums
• scrammed
• questionary
• weatherabilities
• charging tube
• be filled to capacity
• fractionating
• iridic chloride
• nobiliary prefix
• ht.
• good grief / God / Lord / heavens / gracious!
• cobaltites
• in full
• canvased
• hydrostatic pressing
• ilesite
• pandanaceaes
• cast a shadow upon
• tarras
• Mott,Lucretia