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extenuating
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective extenuating has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
extenuating, adj.
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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