extenuate in the PONS Dictionary

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It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter.
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It was supposed to be a high pressure situation -- he wanted to extenuate this.
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The effect on this brain region is said to extenuate feelings of a sense of loss and disappointment with sufferers, akin to not receiving rewards.
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Even if the good pastor claims anger or self-defence, how does that extenuate the latent, if not blatant, criminality, in that charge?
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I do not want to extenuate this action.
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In a state battling very high levels of child malnutrition, this could extenuate the nutritional imbalance.
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Many of the dresses were full and flowing, cinched in at the waist to extenuate the figures of the models.
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No public figure sought to extenuate the violence.
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It allows him to extenuate his strengths and probably hide some of his weaknesses.
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