Extenuate (Verb)
Meaning
Lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of; "The circumstances extenuate the crime".
Classification
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing.
Examples
- The financial struggles her family faced during her childhood can extenuate her decision to drop out of school.
- His lawyer argued that the client's mental health issues extenuate the severity of the crime committed.
- The court took into consideration the mitigating circumstances that extenuate the defendant's actions.
- The victim's behavior partially extenuate the accused person's aggressive response in the conflict.
- The social worker's report helped to extenuate the circumstances surrounding the juvenile's delinquent behavior.