extenuating

Meanings

Verb

Present participle of extenuate

Adjective

That lessens the seriousness of something by providing an excuse.

Origin

From Latin ex ("to delete, to cross out") and tenuatus, past participle of tenuare + Middle English -ing. Synchronically, ex- + tenuate.

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