extenuate
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- v lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of
The circumstances extenuate the crime
- Although Carl feigned madness, his unsound mind did not and will not extenuate his crime.
- That Dan was under the influence of liquor does not in any way extenuate his unacceptable behavior.
- Seemingly the rash students were bent upon egging Prime Minister Velja Vukitchevitch of Jugoslavia into a suicidal war with Italy; but circumstances were not lacking to extenuate .