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Definition of extenuate in English: extenuateverb ɪkˈstɛnjʊeɪtɛkˈstɛnjʊeɪtɪkˈstɛnjəˌweɪt [with object]1as adjective extenuating(of a factor or situation) acting in mitigation to lessen the seriousness of guilt or an offence. hunger and poverty are not treated by the courts as extenuating circumstances Example sentencesExamples - ‘Unless there are the most extenuating circumstances, a person convicted of murder can expect no clemency until he or she has served an extremely lengthy sentence,’ Mr Holmes said.
- Orders came down that anyone who was currently out of status, regardless of any pending applications or extenuating circumstances, was to be automatically detained.
- Zero tolerance means that if you test positive for prohibited substance use, then barring any exculpatory or extenuating circumstances, it is likely that you will be issued with a termination notice or reduced in rank.
- Labour leader Ian Male said last night that the increases could not be morally justified, although there were extenuating circumstances.
- Fialkowski says that students with a high remaining balance due to extenuating circumstances could request a refund or exemption, but that this is rare, and only granted on an individual basis.
- The two also have a stimulating discussion about whether murder can ever be justified by extenuating circumstances.
- Effective in the 2003 fall semester, the university will change the way it handles requests by students for course withdrawal under extenuating circumstances.
- In Florida, you can be held for 21 days before you're released on your own recognizance unless the state has some kind of extenuating circumstances to hold you.
- There are extenuating circumstances, her ignorance, her naivety, her youth (not a crime, one character tries to reassure her), and another's scheming and deception.
- According to provincial law, when a death occurs in Regina a physician or, in extenuating circumstances, a coroner must complete a Medical Certificate of Death with respect to the deceased.
- This still leaves scope for the sentence to be lessened in the light of extenuating circumstances to do with the crime itself.
- During this review, additional information was made available to suggest that there were extenuating circumstances and that the actions of the officer were not representative of his normal conduct.
- Escudie said ‘a small number’ have been granted emergency extensions by military commanders because of extenuating circumstances, including deaths in the family.
- Despite anguished pleas of extenuating circumstances by the desperate father, the school system has so far adamantly insisted that automatic punishments for weapon possession in school are inviolate.
- Members of the SWC jury said, while commenting on one case, that infanticide is an abominable crime and those who commit it cannot be exonerated, whatever the extenuating circumstances.
- There were no extenuating circumstances nor can the Board imagine any that could have justified his continuance.
- She is unconcerned with explanations, alternative interpretations of the evidence (which is flimsy to begin with), extenuating circumstances.
- If you currently have an approved vacation, contact your CTM, Delivery Manager, Captain to establish alternate dates or justify extenuating circumstances.
- I do think the extenuating circumstances mean that a transfer is necessary.
- And there are other considerations-the value of the stolen property, the absence of any extenuating circumstances like dire need, or repentance and restoration of property.
Synonyms mitigating, excusing, exonerative, palliating, palliative, justifying, justificatory, vindicating, exculpatory moderating, qualifying, softening, tempering, diminishing, lessening 2usually as adjective extenuatedliterary Make (someone) thin. drawings of extenuated figures Example sentencesExamples - On one wall, there is a gallery of grave, extenuated figures that recall El Greco.
- Its rather angular and extenuated figures are reminiscent of those of a pyxis in Berkeley which has already been discussed in its relation to our painter.
- A doctrinal synthesis may be a negative guide, eliminating erroneous interpretation, but only in a very extenuated sense would it be a positive aid to interpretation.
- Both outfits extenuated the tans and muscles that had grown over the summer.
Derivatives noun ɪkstɛnjʊˈeɪʃ(ə)nɛkstɛnjʊˈeɪʃ(ə)nɪkˌstɛnjəˈweɪʃ(ə)n mass noun1The action of lessening the seriousness of guilt or an offence. no plea could be urged in extenuation of their crime Example sentencesExamples - count noun he's always ready with extenuations and disclaimers
- Lawyer Mark Waple, who has handled a number of cases on Fort Bragg, said the recent revelations ‘seem to be more along the lines of extenuation and mitigation rather than any defence.’
- Magee argues that Wagner's anti-Semitism, though reprehensible, was not mirrored in his work, but his extenuations have the tone of a capable defense attorney pleading for us to exercise reasonable doubt.
- This is a hard doctrine, but one that has undiminished resonance for us in our own era, whose search for extenuation and victimization diminishes rather than ennobles all it touches.
- his long wings beat slow, steady beats, as if accentuating the extenuation of the bird
2literary The process of making someone or something thin.
adjective ɪkˈstɛnjʊət(ə)riɛkˈstɛnjʊət(ə)ri Here are some examples of manslaughter arising from extenuatory considerations in fact. Example sentencesExamples - The extenuatory sentencing circumstances are various circumstances synoptically provided by the penal code, represent the actors' public harm and personal danger, and can be applied with extenuation in sentences.
Origin Late Middle English (in the sense 'make thin'): from Latin extenuat- 'made thin', from the verb extenuare (based on tenuis 'thin'). thin from Old English: The Old English word thin shares an ancient root with Latin tenuis ‘thin, fine, shallow’, the source of extenuate (mid 16th century) and tenuous (late 16th century). An action which is unimportant in itself, but likely to lead to more serious developments is sometimes described as the thin end of the wedge. The idea here is of something being levered open by the insertion of the edge of a wedge into a narrow crack to widen the opening so that the thicker part can also pass through. The thin red line used to be a name for the British army, in reference to the traditional scarlet uniform. The phrase first occurs in The Times of 24 January 1855, reporting a debate about the distribution of medals for the Crimean War in the House of Lords at which the Earl of Ellenborough who spoke of ‘the services of that “thin red line” which had met and routed the Russian cavalry.’ It has now become so much part of our language that the colour may be altered to change the meaning—the thin blue line can mean the police force.
Definition of extenuate in US English: extenuateverbikˈstenyəˌwātɪkˈstɛnjəˌweɪt [with object]1usually as adjective extenuatingMake (guilt or an offense) seem less serious or more forgivable. there were extenuating circumstances that caused me to say the things I did Example sentencesExamples - And there are other considerations-the value of the stolen property, the absence of any extenuating circumstances like dire need, or repentance and restoration of property.
- Escudie said ‘a small number’ have been granted emergency extensions by military commanders because of extenuating circumstances, including deaths in the family.
- Despite anguished pleas of extenuating circumstances by the desperate father, the school system has so far adamantly insisted that automatic punishments for weapon possession in school are inviolate.
- Zero tolerance means that if you test positive for prohibited substance use, then barring any exculpatory or extenuating circumstances, it is likely that you will be issued with a termination notice or reduced in rank.
- Orders came down that anyone who was currently out of status, regardless of any pending applications or extenuating circumstances, was to be automatically detained.
- According to provincial law, when a death occurs in Regina a physician or, in extenuating circumstances, a coroner must complete a Medical Certificate of Death with respect to the deceased.
- In Florida, you can be held for 21 days before you're released on your own recognizance unless the state has some kind of extenuating circumstances to hold you.
- There are extenuating circumstances, her ignorance, her naivety, her youth (not a crime, one character tries to reassure her), and another's scheming and deception.
- If you currently have an approved vacation, contact your CTM, Delivery Manager, Captain to establish alternate dates or justify extenuating circumstances.
- ‘Unless there are the most extenuating circumstances, a person convicted of murder can expect no clemency until he or she has served an extremely lengthy sentence,’ Mr Holmes said.
- There were no extenuating circumstances nor can the Board imagine any that could have justified his continuance.
- Labour leader Ian Male said last night that the increases could not be morally justified, although there were extenuating circumstances.
- During this review, additional information was made available to suggest that there were extenuating circumstances and that the actions of the officer were not representative of his normal conduct.
- I do think the extenuating circumstances mean that a transfer is necessary.
- Effective in the 2003 fall semester, the university will change the way it handles requests by students for course withdrawal under extenuating circumstances.
- Fialkowski says that students with a high remaining balance due to extenuating circumstances could request a refund or exemption, but that this is rare, and only granted on an individual basis.
- She is unconcerned with explanations, alternative interpretations of the evidence (which is flimsy to begin with), extenuating circumstances.
- Members of the SWC jury said, while commenting on one case, that infanticide is an abominable crime and those who commit it cannot be exonerated, whatever the extenuating circumstances.
- The two also have a stimulating discussion about whether murder can ever be justified by extenuating circumstances.
- This still leaves scope for the sentence to be lessened in the light of extenuating circumstances to do with the crime itself.
Synonyms forgive, pardon, absolve, exonerate, acquit excuse, mitigate, palliate, make allowances for, make excuses for, defend, vindicate, justify, explain, explain away, give an explanation for, come up with an explanation for, make a case for mitigating, excusing, exonerative, palliating, palliative, justifying, justificatory, vindicating, exculpatory 2usually as adjective extenuatedliterary Make (someone) thin. drawings of extenuated figures Example sentencesExamples - Both outfits extenuated the tans and muscles that had grown over the summer.
- Its rather angular and extenuated figures are reminiscent of those of a pyxis in Berkeley which has already been discussed in its relation to our painter.
- On one wall, there is a gallery of grave, extenuated figures that recall El Greco.
- A doctrinal synthesis may be a negative guide, eliminating erroneous interpretation, but only in a very extenuated sense would it be a positive aid to interpretation.
Origin Late Middle English (in the sense ‘make thin’): from Latin extenuat- ‘made thin’, from the verb extenuare (based on tenuis ‘thin’). |