extenuate

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Extenuate: to make or to become weak, thin or slender.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.

Extenuate, eks-ten′ū-āt, v.t. to lessen: to underrate: to weaken the force of: to palliate.—p.adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

Nay more: It’s vertue is so much, That if a Lady get a Touch, Her griefe it will Extenuate, If she but smell of Chocolate.

From Chocolate: or, An Indian Drinke By the wise and Moderate use whereof, Health is preserved, Sicknesse Diverted, and Cured, especially the Plague of the Guts; vulgarly called The New Disease ; Fluxes, Consumptions, & Coughs of the Lungs, with sundry other desperate Diseases. By it also, Conception is Caused, the Birth Hastened and facilitated, Beauty Gain'd and continued. by Wadsworth, James

"Extenuate my conduct!"' she concluded, quoting Mr. Gibson's words.

From Wives and Daughters by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn