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Extenuating
- verb - lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of; "The circumstances extenuate the crime"
- partially excusing or justifying; "extenuating circumstances"
Extenuation
- noun - a partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances
- to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious
Extenuatory
- - Tending to extenuate or palliate.
Extirpating
- verb - destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted" "root out corruption"
- pull up by or as if by the roots; "uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden"
- surgically remove (an organ)
Extirpation
- noun - surgical removal of a body part or tissue
- the act of pulling up or out; uprooting; cutting off from existence
Extirpative
- - Capable of rooting out, or tending to root out.
Extraditing
- verb - hand over to the authorities of another country; "They extradited the fugitive to his native country so he could be tried there"
Extradition
- noun - the surrender of an accused or convicted person by one state or country to another (usually under the provisions of a statute or treaty)