extenuated
English
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editextenuated (comparative more extenuated, superlative most extenuated)
- Made slender or thin; emaciated, wasted.
- 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], Shirley. A Tale. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC:
- 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 […]
Verb
editextenuated
- simple past and past participle of extenuate