extenuating
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- adjective
- /ɪkˈstɛnjuˌeɪtɪŋ/
- Formal
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atenuante
- If there were extenuating circumstances that prevented the student's participation, then the student should have withdrawn from the course.
- extenuating circumstances
And it said due to extenuating circumstances, Raya Raya has decided not to.
- And it said due to extenuating circumstances, Raya Raya has decided not to.
Examples
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However, there were extenuating circumstances that made attending this Comic Con a no-brainer for us.
Blog text (13) -
Well, even though you admit your guilt, there may be extenuating circumstances.
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Yeah, but these are extenuating circumstances, my man.
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For the amount of money we agreed on, there were no extenuating circumstances like this.
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Maybe there were extenuating circumstances in your case.
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There really are extenuating circumstances that you might not know about.
Blog text (17) -
Did it occur to you there might be some extenuating circumstances?
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A grade of I was assigned when a student was unable to complete a course because of extenuating circumstances.
Academic text (2008) -
Now in this case, we can plainly see that there are extenuating circumstances.
Fiction book (1991) -
The judge considered the defendant's difficult background as extenuating circumstances when deciding the sentence.
Synonyms
Causing pain or harm to be less severe
To make pain or a bad situation easier to bear
Antonyms
How Mitigating
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word extenuating comes from Latin parts ex- 'out' and tenuare 'make thin', from tenuis 'thin', and you can see the same root in the English word tenuous ('thin' or 'weak'). That's why extenuating reasons 'make a fault seem smaller', so they make an action seem less serious.