extenuate

vt. 减轻, 为...找借口 [法] 减轻, 低估, 藐视

发音

UK /ɪkˈstɛnjʊeɪt/
UK /ɛk-/
UK /-juː/
US /ɪkˈstɛnjəˌweɪt/

词形变化

extenuated extenuatedst extenuates 三单 extenuates extenuateth extenuating extenuating 现在分词 extenuated 过去式 extenuated 过去分词 extenuatest extenuatedst 过去式 extenuateth 三单 extenuated 复数 more extenuate 比较级 most extenuate 最高级

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To make (something) less dense, or thinner; also, to lower the viscosity of (something).

    正式 及物
  2. 2.

    To make (someone or something) slender or thin; to emaciate, to waste.

    古体 正式 及物
  3. 3.

    To underestimate or understate the importance of (something); to underrate.

    古体 正式 及物
  4. 4.

    To underestimate or understate the importance of (something); to underrate.

    To diminish or seek to diminish the extent or severity of (a crime, guilt, a mistake, or something else negative) by making apologies or excuses; to palliate.

    古体 正式 及物

    to extenuate his faults to extenuate their crimes

  5. 5.

    To beat or draw (a metal object, etc.) out so as to lessen the thickness.

    正式 废旧 及物
  6. 6.

    To reduce the quality or quantity of (something); to lessen or weaken the force of (something).

    正式 废旧 及物
  7. 7.

    To degrade (someone); to detract from (someone's qualities, reputation, etc.); to depreciate, to disparage.

    正式 废旧 及物
adj.
  1. 1.

    Of a person: emaciated, wasted, weakened; of the body or part of it: atrophied, shrunken, withered.

    正式 废旧 及物
  2. 2.

    Of a quality or thing: lessened, weakened.

    正式 废旧 及物
  3. 3.

    Reduced to poverty; impoverished.

    正式 废旧 及物

词汇关系

动词

同义词 2

mitigate palliate

上位词 5

excuse apologize apologise rationalize rationalise

词源

From Middle English extenuat (“(medicine) made thin, emaciated”), from Latin extenuātus (“diminished, reduced, thinned”), perfect passive participle of extenuō (“to diminish, reduce, thin”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from ex- (“out-, thoroughly”) + tenuō (“to enfeeble, weaken, wear down; to lessen, reduce; to make thin”) from tenuō, itself from tenuis (“fine, slender, thin; feeble, weak”) + -ō (first conjugation-verb forming suffix) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tenh₂- (“to extend, stretch; thin”)). Compare attenuate.

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