0 past simple and past participle of extenuate
1 to cause a wrong act to be judged less seriously by giving reasons for it:
To an extent this may be true, but it is really a rather extenuated argument based on various possible contingent sets of events.
This would be further extenuated if resource acquisition was positively related to size, or inversely related to parasite burden.
There were six films of which crime was the sole or principal theme or in which crime was extenuated or held up for sympathy.
