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They attempted to extenuate their crimes by the hardships they had suffered, but in vain.
This reflection may extenuate my faults in their effects, but it must aggravate them in their source.
The Lords' committee extenuate the presumption that either knights or burgesses sat in any of these parliaments.
If some dozen of the conniving deputies had been sent there, Warden Tapp might have had less to extenuate.
But whether he is to be believed or not, the fact that four of the prisoners went down in irons is impossible to extenuate.
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On this page you'll find 40 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to extenuate, such as: decrease, diminish, downplay, excuse, justify, and minimize.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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