extenuated

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English

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Etymology

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From extenuate +‎ -ed.

Adjective

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extenuated (comparative more extenuated, superlative most extenuated)

  1. Made slender or thin; emaciated, wasted.
    • 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], Shirley. A Tale. [], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder and Co., [], →OCLC:
      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 []

Verb

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extenuated

  1. simple past and past participle of extenuate