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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.
Externalise
- verb - make external or objective, or give reality to; "language externalizes our thoughts"
- regard as objective
Externalism
- - The quality of being manifest to the senses; external acts or appearances; regard for externals.
Externality
- noun - the quality or state of being outside or directed toward or relating to the outside or exterior; "the outwardness of the world"
Externalize
- verb - make external or objective, or give reality to; "language externalizes our thoughts"
- regard as objective
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.