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{"id": "extenuate", "metadata": {"operation": "retrieve", "provider": "Oxford University Press", "schema": "RetrieveEntry"}, "results": [{"id": "extenuate", "language": "en-gb", "lexicalEntries": [{"derivatives": [{"id": "extenuatory", "text": "extenuatory"}], "entries": [{"etymologies": ["late Middle English (in the sense \u2018make thin\u2019): from Latin extenuat- \u2018made thin\u2019, from the verb extenuare (based on tenuis \u2018thin\u2019)"], "grammaticalFeatures": [{"id": "transitive", "text": "Transitive", "type": "Subcategorization"}], "pronunciations": [{"audioFile": "https://audio.oxforddictionaries.com/en/mp3/extenuate_gb_1_8.mp3", "dialects": ["British English"], "phoneticNotation": "IPA", "phoneticSpelling": "\u026ak\u02c8st\u025bnj\u028ae\u026at"}, {"dialects": ["British English"], "phoneticNotation": "IPA", "phoneticSpelling": "\u025bk\u02c8st\u025bnj\u028ae\u026at"}], "senses": [{"definitions": ["cause (an offence) to seem less serious"], "examples": [{"text": "even the fact that you once helped to save my life could not extenuate your offence"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0343750.007", "shortDefinitions": ["acting in mitigation to lessen seriousness of guilt or offence"], "synonyms": [{"language": "en", "text": "forgive"}, {"language": "en", "text": "pardon"}, {"language": "en", "text": "absolve"}, {"language": "en", "text": "exonerate"}, {"language": "en", "text": "acquit"}], "thesaurusLinks": [{"entry_id": "excuse", "sense_id": "t_en_gb0005207.001"}]}, {"definitions": ["make (someone) thin"], "examples": [{"text": "his whole frame was extenuated by hunger and fatigue"}, {"notes": [{"text": "as adjective \"extenuated\"", "type": "wordFormNote"}], "text": "drawings of extenuated figures"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0343750.011", "registers": [{"id": "literary", "text": "Literary"}], "shortDefinitions": ["make someone thin"]}]}], "language": "en-gb", "lexicalCategory": {"id": "verb", "text": "Verb"}, "text": "extenuate"}], "type": "headword", "word": "extenuate"}], "word": "extenuate"}
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