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extenuated

adj

Etymology

From extenuate + -ed.

  1. derived from *tenh₂-✻ — “to extend, stretch; thin”
  2. derived from extenuātus — “diminished, reduced, thinned”
  3. inherited from extenuat — “(medicine) made thin, emaciated”
  4. suffixed as extenuated — “extenuate + ed”

Definitions

  1. Made slender or thin

    Made slender or thin; emaciated, wasted.

    • To this extenuated spectre, perhaps, a crumb is not thrown once a year; but when ahungered and athirst to famine—when all humanity has forgotten the dying tenant of a decaying house—Divine Mercy remembers the mourner, […]

  2. simple past and past participle of extenuate

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA