Extenuated
adj, verb
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Definitions
Verb
- 1 simple past and past participle of extenuate form-of, participle, past
Adjective
- 1 Made slender or thin; emaciated, wasted.
"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, […]"
Example
More examples"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, […]"
Etymology
From extenuate + -ed.
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