Usually means: Make less serious or severe.
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  1. extenuate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. extenuate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. extenuate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. extenuate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. extenuate: Vocabulary.com
  6. extenuate: Wordnik
  7. extenuate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. extenuate: Wiktionary
  9. extenuate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. extenuate: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Extenuate, extenuate: Dictionary.com
  12. extenuate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Extenuate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. extenuate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. extenuate: Rhymezone
  16. Extenuate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. extenuate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. extenuate: Free Dictionary
  19. extenuate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. extenuate: Dictionary/thesaurus
  21. extenuate: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  22. extenuate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. extenuate: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. extenuate: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. extenuate: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. extenuate: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See extenuated as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (extenuate)

verb:  To make (something) less dense, or thinner; also, to lower the viscosity of (something).
verb:  (archaic)
verb:  To make (someone or something) slender or thin; to emaciate, to waste.
verb:  To underestimate or understate the importance of (something); to underrate.
verb:  (specifically) To diminish or seek to diminish the extent or severity of (a crime, guilt, a mistake, or something else negative) by making apologies or excuses; to palliate.
verb:  (obsolete)
verb:  To beat or draw (a metal object, etc.) out so as to lessen the thickness.
verb:  To reduce the quality or quantity of (something); to lessen or weaken the force of (something).
verb:  To degrade (someone); to detract from (someone's qualities, reputation, etc.); to depreciate, to disparage.
adjective:  Of a person: emaciated, wasted, weakened; of the body or part of it: atrophied, shrunken, withered.
adjective:  Of a quality or thing: lessened, weakened.
adjective:  Reduced to poverty; impoverished.

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