extenuation
Kelime Anlamı :

1. hafifletici şey.
2. ciddiye almama.
3. hafife alma.
4. hafifletme.
5. azaltma.
6. hafifletmek.
7. mazur göstermek.
8. ciddiye almamak.
9. azalt.
10. hafife almak.
Tanımlar :
1. the act of extenuating or the condition of being extenuated; partial justification.
2. A partial excuse.
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
1. the act of extenuating or the state of being extenuated; the act of making thin, slender, or lean, or of palliating; diminishing, or lessening; palliation, as of a crime; mitigation, as of punishment.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
1. the act of axtenuating or the state of being extenuated; the act of making thin, slender, or lean, or of palliating; diminishing, or lessening; palliation, as of a crime; mitigation, as of punishment.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
1. the act of making thin; the process of growing thin or lean; the losing of flesh.
2. the act of making less, or that which makes less, in importance or degree; a diminishing of blame or guilt in fact or in estimation; mitigation; palliation: as, his faults deserve no extenuation; a charitable purpose is no extenuation of crime.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
1. a partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances
2. to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.