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English
Etymology
From extenuate + -ed.
Adjective
extenuated (comparative more extenuated, superlative most extenuated)
- Made slender or thin; emaciated, wasted.
1849, Currer Bell , “Old Maids”, in Shirley. A Tale. In Three Volumes.">…], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., , →OCLC, page 264: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,
Derived terms
Verb
extenuated
- simple past and past participle of extenuate