extenuated

English

Etymology

From extenuate +‎ -ed.

Adjective

extenuated (comparative more extenuated, superlative most extenuated)

1. Made slender or thin; emaciated, wasted.
   • 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Old Maids”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], 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

• unextenuated

Verb

extenuated

1. simple past and past participle of extenuate