extenuate

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extenuate

antaa anteeksi, oikeuttaa, rationaalistaa, rationalisoida, puolustella, lieventää.

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extenuate rimmaa näiden kanssa:

aate, olympia-aate, osuustoiminta-aate, periaate, toimintaperiaate, yleisperiaate, määräämisperiaate, toimitusperiaate, julkisuusperiaate, kansallisuusperiaate...

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Englannin sanakirja

extenuate englanniksi

1. puhekieltä To make thin or slender; to draw out so as to lessen the thickness.

2. Grew

His body behind the head becomes broad, from whence it is again extenuated all the way to the tail.

3. 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 (..)

4. puhekieltä To become thinner.

5. 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.

6. 1599, w:William Shakespeare|William Shakespeare, w:Much Ado About Nothing|Much Ado About Nothing, s:Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare)|Act 4 Scene 1

CLAUDIO. I know what you would say: if I have known her,

You'll say she did embrace me as a husband,

And so extenuate the 'forehand sin: No, Leonato,

I never tempted her with word too large;

But, as a brother to his sister, show'd

Bashful sincerity and comely love.

7. I. Taylor

Let us extenuate, conceal, adorn the unpleasing reality.

8. puhekieltä To lower or degrade; to detract from.

9. Milton

Who can extenuate thee?

10. (inflection of)

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