Vocabulary Word
Word: extenuate
Definition: weaken; mitigate; lessen the seriousness of (bad behavior)
Definition: weaken; mitigate; lessen the seriousness of (bad behavior)
Sentences Containing 'extenuate'
``Impostor,''repeated Villefort;``certainly, madame, you appear to extenuate some cases, and exaggerate others.
“In the several debates upon this impeachment, it must be confessed that his majesty gave many marks of his great lenity; often urging the services you had done him, and endeavouring to extenuate your crimes.