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extenuated, ppl. a.|ɛkˈstɛnjuːeɪtɪd|
[f. prec. + -ed.]
In senses of the vb.a. Made slender; shrunken, emaciated. b. Attenuated, rarefied.
a.1620Venner Via Recta ii. 36 It is..more profitable for loose and extenuated bodies. 1726Leoni tr. Alberti's Archit. I. 5 b, Their Faces become thin and extenuated. 1781Char. in Ann. Reg. 19/1 The person of Dr. Fothergill was of a delicate, rather of an extenuated make. 1863Hawthorne Our Old Home (1879) 76 We..are getting too nervous, haggard, dyspeptic, extenuated.
b.1661Boyle Spring of Air ii. ii. (1662) 33 Calling this extenuated substance a Funiculus. |