| 词汇 | extenuated |
| 释义 | extenuated past simple and past participle ofextenuate extenuate verb[ T ] formaluk /ɪkˈsten.ju.eɪt/ us /ɪkˈsten.ju.eɪt/ to cause a wrong act to be judged less seriously by giving reasons for it: 为（错误行为）辩解 He was unable to say anything that might have extenuated his behaviour.他拿不出任何理由为自己的行为辩解。 Defining & explaining account (to someone) for something accountability adumbrate adumbration annotation annotator belabour demythologize excuse extenuate indefinably indescribably inexpressibly justificatory lay something out outline sketch spell walk through something what is he, are they, etc. like?idiom Related wordsextenuating extenuation Examples of extenuatedextenuated In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. To an extent this may be true, but it is really a rather extenuated argument based on various possible contingent sets of events. This would be further extenuated if resource acquisition was positively related to size, or inversely related to parasite burden. There were six films of which crime was the sole or principal theme or in which crime was extenuated or held up for sympathy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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