- extenuating - partially excusing or justifying; "extenuating circumstances"
Antonyms: inculpatory, inculpative (indirect, via exculpatory)
- 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
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun extenuation1, noun extenuation2
Something ----s something