extenuated

English

Etymology

From extenuate +‎ -ed.

Adjective

extenuated (comparative more extenuated, superlative most extenuated)

1. Made slender or thin; emaciated, wasted.
   • 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], Shirley. A Tale. […], volumes (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

extenuated

1. simple past and past participle of extenuate