| VERB | communication | extenuate, palliate, mitigate | lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of |
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| Sounds | ihksteh'nyuwey.t | |
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| Rhymes | abate ... welterweight: 559 rhymes with eyt... | |
| Meaning | lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s something | |
| Example | "The circumstances extenuate the crime" | |
| Synonyms | palliate, mitigate | |
| Category | law, jurisprudence | The collection of rules imposed by authority |
| Broader | apologize, apologise, excuse, rationalize, rationalise | defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning |
| Spanish | atenuar, mitigar, paliar, remediar | |
| Catalan | atenuar, mitigar, pal·liar, remeiar | |
| Nouns | extenuation | to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious |
| extenuation | a partial excuse to mitigate censure | |
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