extenuated
past simple and past participle ofextenuate
| 单词 | extenuated |
| 释义 | extenuated past simple and past participle ofextenuate extenuate verb[T] formaluk/ɪkˈsten.ju.eɪt/us/ɪkˈsten.ju.eɪt/tocauseawrongactto bejudgedlessseriouslyby givingreasonsfor it: He wasunableto say anything that might have extenuated hisbehaviour. Defining & explaining
Examplesofextenuatedextenuated 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 ratherextenuatedargument based on various possible contingent sets of events. From theCambridge English Corpus This would be furtherextenuatedif resource acquisition was positively related to size, or inversely related to parasite burden. From theCambridge English Corpus There were six films of which crime was the sole or principal theme or in which crime wasextenuatedor held up for sympathy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen 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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