English Dictionary

extenuate

/ɪkˈstɛnjʊət/

adj

Of a person: emaciated, wasted, weakened; of the body or part of it: atrophied, shrunken, withered. / Of a quality or thing: lessened, weakened. / Reduced to poverty; impoverished.

She looked extenuated after weeks of not eating.

意味（1）

Of a person: emaciated, wasted, weakened; of the body or part of it: atrophied, shrunken, withered.

意味（2）

Of a quality or thing: lessened, weakened.

And, that ſame Maieſty, vvhich (as the Baſe / And Pedeſtal) ſupports the vvaight and grace, / Greatnes and glory of a vvell-Rul'd State, / It not extinguiſht nor extenuate, / By being parcelliz'd to a plurality / Of petty Kinglings, of a mean Equality: […]

意味（3）

Reduced to poverty; impoverished.