音标:[ik'stenjueit] ;
vt. 减轻, 为...找借口
[法] 减轻, 低估, 藐视
v. lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of
词型变化:现在分词 : extenuating ; 名词复数形式 : extenuates ; 过去式 : extenuated ; 第三人称单数 : extenuates ; 过去分词 : extenuated
考试类型:[托福/GRE]

extenuate的用法和样例:

例句

  1. Because of extenuating circumstances, the court acquitted him of the crime.因考虑到情有可原,法庭判他无罪。
  2. Nothing can extenuate such appalling behavior.这种骇人听闻的行径罪不可恕。

经典引文

  • The prisoner's age and previous good character were extenuating circumstances.

    出自:B. Bainbridge
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1-bebeerine
a rising tide lifts all boats
A stitch in time saves nine.
acute simple red cell aplastic anemia
adatoms
Adenos cotton
administration of broadcasting and television
adsx
affixing of seal
amarella mauro
anchor coat
anti-sagging agent
arithmometers
armor rock
Assaye
At Ta'mīm, Liwā'
auto macro
avant-rocks
backstager
balloon skirt
blower pipe
bovine tuberculosis
business processor
cancales
catabasis
catalytic wall
compile duration
conical pulley
consensus trance
convergent evolution
Cynophenphos
d-r
data-scooping
dead studio
dessler
digital frequency synthesizer (dfs)
directional charge
ditype
dorsal column (or dorsal gray column)
ekho
escape parachute
expunge from
extrusion by melting
fathalla
ferrochrome exothermic
fine blanking die
fixed axis of rotation
freight transportation or shipping
friction correction
fugitive lubricant
full sibling
gamma-ray radiator
go into retreat
gospoda
heluation
hightail it
inhibin-A
Interactive TV
interferant
interrogative mark
Joy Smoke
Lamiales
limonada
maximum of the second kind
medical patient
Mexican hairlesses
michaelian
mixed cut
moky
mwangale
National Visa Center
noddy
octal content
order contractive operator
output per unit
overcoddle
overhead distribution sheet
parascholzite
parasite immunology
partygoer
Peano arithmetic
petrescence
photoelectronic travelling waveguide
polarization mode
principal right
searcher beetles
secre
segmentaldilatationofintestine
self-guided tour
serve in
shrinelets
single-frame video
subgrade stability
table-driven code generation
tamasha (india)
tambagut
tetrahydroxy phenol
too-young
total rationality
Yāghārda, Darya-ye
zan