extenuating

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Adjective
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective extenuating has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

extenuatingadj. 
     serving or tending to reduce the severity of guilt or blameworthiness; as, extenuating circumstances.  [WordNet 1.5]

THESAURUS

extenuating

altering, apologetic, assuasive, bounding, diminishing, excusatory, excusing, extenuative, extenuatory, justificatory, justifying, lenitive, lessening, limitative, limiting, mitigating, mitigative, mitigatory, modificatory, modifying, modulatory, palliative, qualificative, qualificatory, qualifying, refuting, rehabilitative, restricting, restrictive, softening, tempering, vindicative, vindicatory

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