puhekieltä To make thin or slender; to draw out so as to lessen the thickness.
Grew
His body behind the head becomes broad, from whence it is again extenuated all the way to the tail.
Charlotte Brontë, Shirley
To this extenuated spectre, perhaps, a crumb is not thrown once a year, but when ahungered and athirst to famine—when all humanity has forgotten the dying tenant of a decaying house—Divine Mercy remembers the mourner (..)
puhekieltä To become thinner.
puhekieltä 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.