Extenuation

Definition: Extenuation

Extenuation

Noun

1. To act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "extenuation" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references)

Synonyms: Extenuation

Nonincrease, Decrease

Noun: decrease, diminution; lessening; Verb: subtraction; reduction, abatement, declension; shrinking; (contraction.); coarctation; abridgment; (shortening); extenuation.

Vindication

Extenuation; palliation, palliative; softening, mitigation.

Albanian

zbutje (alleviation, amortization, appeasement, attenuation, creep, domestication, maceration, malaxation, mitigation, mollification, propitiation, reclamation, relaxation, relief, softening), lehtësim (attenuation, easement, facilitation, mitigation, palliation, relaxation, release, relief, remission, softening, solace), justifikim (alibi, allowance, defence, defense, exculpation, excuse, justification, plea, warrant). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مبرر جزئى, ‏تلطيف (assuagement, mitigation, softening, temperament), ‏تخفيف (alleviation, attenuation, dilution, easement, mitigation, reduction, remission), ‏تبرير جزئى. (various references)

Bulgarian 

частично оправдаване, изтощаване (drain), извинение (alibi, apology, excuse, justification, pardon, peg, put off). (various references)

Czech

zmírnìní (alleviation, assuagement, easing, mitigation, palliation, relief). (various references)

Danish

formildende omstændighed (extenuating excuse). (various references)

Dutch

verzachtende omstandigheid (extenuating excuse), verzachtende omstandigheden (extenuating circumstances). (various references)

Finnish

rangaistuksen lieventämisperuste (extenuating excuse), lieventävät asianhaarat (extenuating circumstances). (various references)

French

excuse atténuante (extenuating excuse), circonstances atténuantes (extenuating circumstances), atténuation. (various references)

German

mildernde Umstände (mitigating circumstances). (various references)

Greek 

ελάφρυνση, ελαφρυντικό. (various references)

Hungarian

hígítás (dilution, rarefaction), legyengülés (debilitation), elgyengülés (debilitation, emasculation), elgyengítés (debilitation, emasculation), elvékonyítás (tapering), enyhítés (alleviation, easement, mitigation, palliation), gyengítés (weakening), elerőtlenedés (debilitation, emasculation), kisebbítés (diminution), teljes testi elerőtlenedés, lesoványodás, leszállítás (abatement, cut, deliverance), mentegetés (palliation), soványodás, szépítés (retouch), kimerülés (depletion). (various references)

Italian

circostanze attenuanti (extenuating circumstances), circostanza attenuante (extenuating excuse), attenuazione (attenuation, mitigation), attenuanti (extenuating circumstances). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

仮借 (borrowing, borrowing a kanji with the same pronunciation to convey a certain term, characters substituted for others of the same sound, pardon). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かしゃく (borrowing, characters substituted for others of the same sound, maltreatment, pangs, pardon, torture). (various references)

Pig Latin

extenuationay.(various references)

Portuguese

extenuação, enfraquecimento (abatement, decay, decline, deterioration, down-grade, enervation, fading, failing, fainting-fit, impairment, labefaction, run-out), debilitação (debilitation), circunstância atenuantes (extenuating circumstances), circunstância atenuante (extenuating excuse), atenuação (mitigation). (various references)

Romanian

atenuare (abatement, attenuation, dilution, remission). (various references)

Russian 

ослабление (attenuation, debilitation, labefaction), истощение (emaciation, goneness), извинение (apology), изнурение (emaciation). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

smanjenje (abatement, curtailment, cut, cutting down, decrease, lowering, mark down, markdown, mitigation, reduction, shrinkage, waning). (various references)

Spanish

extenuación (emaciation, exhaustion, weakness), atenuación (attenuation). (various references)

Swedish

ursäkt (apology, excuse), förringande (depreciation, depreciatory, derogation, derogatory, detraction, detractive, detractory), förmildrande omständigheter (extenuating circumstances), förmildrande (extenuating, palliative). (various references)

Turkish

hafifletme (appeasement, commutation, lightening, mitigation, modulation, palliation, relaxation, relief, remission), hafife alma (considering unimportant, slight), ciddiye almama. (various references)

Ukrainian

ослаблення (abatement, attenuation, dйtente, debilitation, decay, decrease, depression, derogation, dilution, impoverishment, labefaction, let down, letup, prostration), пробачення (excuse, pardon, remission), полегшення (alleviation, amendment, appeasement, ease, easement, relief). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự làm suy nhược (debilitation), sự giảm nhẹ tội. (various references)

deprecatio, deprecationem, deprecationis, deprecationum. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "extenuation": extenuations. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: intonate, nutation, outeaten, tonneaux.

-4 letters: enation, neonate, tonneau, tontine, uneaten.

-5 letters: annexe, anoint, attune, auntie, eonian, exeunt, extant, extent, innate, intent, intone, nation, neaten, nontax, notate, nutant, nutate, outate, outeat, tauten, taxite, tenant, teniae, tentie, tenuti, tenuto, toxine.

+1 letter: extenuations.