Verb extenuate has 1 sense
  1. extenuate, palliate, mitigate - lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of; "The circumstances extenuate the crime"
    --1 is one way to apologize, apologise, excuse, justify, rationalize, rationalise
    Derived forms: noun extenuation1, noun extenuation2
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s something
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