Word Finder - extenuating

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To lessen; to palliate; to lessen or weaken the force of; to diminish the conception of, as crime, guilt, faults, ills, accusations, etc.

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To make thin or slender; to draw out so as to lessen the thickness.

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To become thinner.

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To lower or degrade; to detract from.

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That lessens the seriousness of something by providing an excuse.

No evidence was presented to suggest cause or extenuating circumstances.

The following rules typically apply, but there may be extenuating circumstances in which the laws become more flexible.

The individual is generally homebound as a result of frailty, illness, or extenuating circumstances.

If a taxpayer is genuinely unable to pay due to extenuating circumstances, the IRS may decide to delay collection for a period of time.

It goes on to caution that extenuating factors could exist, such as immaturity, habitual, or psychological problems.

Adopters must keep their new pets for life or return them to the shelter if extenuating circumstances occur.

Finally, keep in mind that there may be extenuating circumstances in your baby's life that can interrupt her sleeping through the night.

Would Chapman would have allowed one of his "busts" the same courtesy if there was extenuating circumstances surrounding that person's arrest?

People with recent foreclosures may be considered if they can prove extenuating circumstances caused the foreclosure.

For example, some doctors and clinics specialize in seeing more patients who are having trouble conceiving or have extenuating circumstances.

A promise ring relating to marriage usually indicates that the wedding is several years away, often because one or both members of the couple are too young to legally wed, or there may be other extenuating circumstances.

While you can allow for extenuating circumstances, you also have to commit to your main goal.

Most party planners suggest estimating around 80 percent attendance (unless you know of extenuating circumstances that would affect a large group).

In these Orestes is the guilt-laden mortal who is purified from his sin by the grace of the gods, whose merciful justice is shown to all persons whose crime is mitigated by extenuating circumstances.

After all, he was a wayward man of the cloth and she did peddle her butt for bucks, whatever the extenuating circumstances.

This part of Henrys policy is connected with the name of his two extortionate fiscal judges Empson and Dudley, who turned law and justice into rapine by their minute inquisition into all technical breaches of legality, and the nice fashion in which they adapted the fine to the wealth of the misdemeanant, without any reference to his moral guilt or any regard for extenuating circumstances.

Given the extenuating circumstances, I believe we'll obtain approval without an audience.

It was due to him that, in 1832, the right, so important in actual French practice, was given to juries to find "extenuating circumstances" in cases when guilt involved the death penalty.

It was not till 1899 that the unfortunate prisoner was brought back to France for retrial by court-martial, and even then, so strong was the anti-Semitic and military prejudice, he was again found guilty "with extenuating circumstances" at Rennes (September 9), though ten days later he was "pardoned" by President Loubet.

On these three considerations alone is based the conception of irresponsibility for crimes and the extenuating circumstances admitted by all legislative codes.