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    extenuate
    /ɪkˈstɛnjʊeɪt/

    verb

    • 1. cause (an offence) to seem less serious: "even the fact that you once helped to save my life could not extenuate your offence"
    • 2. make (someone) thin: literary "his whole frame was extenuated by hunger and fatigue"

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