extenuated

extenuated

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English extenuate
English -ed
English extenuated

    From extenuate + -ed.

    Adjective

    extenuated (comparative more extenuated, superlative most extenuated)

    1. Made slender or thin; emaciated, wasted.
      • 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Old Maids”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 264:
        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, […]

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    Verb

    extenuated

    1. simple past and past participle of extenuate
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