extenuating

About 0.25 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb present participle and gerund of extenuate
2. adjective That attenuates or lessens the seriousness of something, e.g. by providing a mitigating excuse for it.

Similar words

exculpatory mitigating mitigation particular specific extraordinary smoothing attenuating commuted minorative

Often followed by

circumstances circumstance the factors or factor and nothing reasons

Word family

extenuating circumstances