extenuated

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adjective

Made slender or thin; emaciated, wasted.

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Meanings

adjectiveextenuated (comparative more extenuated, superlative most extenuated)

comparative more extenuated · superlative most extenuated

  1. 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, […]

    1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Old Maids”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 264
verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of extenuate

Origin

From extenuate + -ed.

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Translations

Spanish extenuado
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Cite this entry
APA

extenuated. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/extenuated

MLA

“extenuated.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/extenuated. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “extenuated,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/extenuated.

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