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extenuated

extenuated adjective: made slender or thin; emaciated, wasted. Also the simple past and past participle of extenuate.

Adjective

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

Also used as

extenuated is also the simple past and past participle of extenuate.

Forms of extenuated

comparativemore extenuated
superlativemost extenuated

Origin of extenuated

From extenuate + -ed.

Words formed from extenuated

Questions about extenuated

What does extenuated mean?
Extenuated means made slender or thin; emaciated, wasted.
What part of speech is extenuated?
Extenuated is an adjective.

Words near extenuated in the dictionary

  1. extents of occurrence
  2. extenuable
  3. extenuacion
  4. extenuacions
  5. extenuate
  6. extenuated
  7. extenuatedst
  8. extenuates
  9. extenuatest
  10. extenuateth
  11. extenuating

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