extenuated 

  1. 動詞
extenuate過去式與過去分詞:
及物動詞:
為...(錯誤行為等)辯解
掩飾...(壞事等)
減輕...(罪過等)
減弱...(事物)

    同義字詞
excuse,explain away,gloss (over),gloze (over),palliate,whitewash

例句

  1. Baptism cloaked and extenuated the final decree; it did not eliminate it.
  2. Mr. Gladstone extenuated and did his best to explain away the Yomood massacre.
  3. Sin, confessed and forsaken, is not so dangerous, as sin denied and extenuated .
  4. A series of cocoon shaped camouflage print coats , skirts and dresses with extenuated shoulders opened the show.
  5. I believe that some of the post traumatic stress was caused or extenuated on our arrival home by thoise thoughtless arseholes who made our life a misery.