Extenuate
[ɪk'stenjʊeɪt;ek-] or [ɪk'stɛnjʊet]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of; 'The circumstances extenuate the crime'.
整理:梅纳德--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To make thin or slender; to draw out so as to lessen the thickness.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To lower or degrade; to detract from.
(v. i.) To become thinner; to make excuses; to advance palliating considerations.
(a.) Thin; slender.
錄入:奥维尔
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Lessen, diminish, reduce in size or bulk.[2]. Palliate, mitigate, qualify, excuse, apologize for.
校對:索尼亚
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Mitigate, qualify, palliate
ANT:Aggravate, heighten, enhance
格雷戈里錄入
解釋/意思:
v.t. to lessen: to underrate: to weaken the force of: to palliate.—p.adj. Exten′uating palliating.—adv. Exten′uatingly.—n. Extenuā′tion act of representing anything as less wrong or criminal than it is: palliation: mitigation.—adjs. Exten′uative Exten′uatory tending to extenuate: palliative.—n. Exten′uator.
布丽奇特編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- It would avail me nothing to extenuate it now. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- In short, every one of his faults we either endeavour to extenuate, or dignify it with the name of that virtue, which approaches it. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- My dear sir, I've no wish to extenuate the Count's transgressions; but--but on the other side . 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- I have just written a paper for next Thursday's Chronicle, to extenuate matters a little. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- He always admitted his blunders, and extenuated those of officers under him beyond what they were entitled to. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The road would be none the smoother for it, the end would be none the better for it, he would not be helped, nor I extenuated. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
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