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Cloak vs Extenuate - What's the difference?

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Cloak is a related term of extenuate.


As verbs the difference between cloak and extenuate

is that cloak is to cover as with a cloak while extenuate is to make thin or slender; to draw out so as to lessen the thickness.

As a noun cloak

is a long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back; a cape, often with a hood.

cloak

English

(wikipedia cloak)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back; a cape, often with a hood.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=5 citation , passage=‘It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited. Much too good to hide away, so one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.’}}
  • A blanket-like covering, often metaphorical.
  • (figurative)  That which conceals; a disguise or pretext.
  • * South
    • No man is esteemed any ways considerable for policy who wears religion otherwise than as a cloak .
  • (Internet)  A text replacement for an IRC user's hostname or IP address, making the user less identifiable.

    • Derived terms

    * cloak and dagger

    See also

    * burnoose, burnous, burnouse * domino costume

    Verb

  • To cover as with a cloak.
  • (science fiction, ambitransitive) To render or become invisible via futuristic technology.
    • The ship cloaked before entering the enemy sector of space.

    Derived terms

    * cloaking device

    extenuate

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To make thin or slender; to draw out so as to lessen the thickness.
  • * Grew
    • His body behind the head becomes broad, from whence it is again extenuated all the way to the tail.
  • * Charlotte Brontë, Shirley
    • To this extenuated spectre, perhaps, a crumb is not thrown once a year, but when ahungered and athirst to famine—when all humanity has forgotten the dying tenant of a decaying house—Divine Mercy remembers the mourner
  • To become thinner.
  • To lessen; to palliate; to lessen or weaken the force of; to diminish the conception of, as crime, guilt, faults, ills, accusations, etc.; opposed to aggravate.
  • * 1599 ,
    • CLAUDIO. I know what you would say: if I have known her,
    You'll say she did embrace me as a husband,
    And so extenuate the 'forehand sin: No, Leonato,
    I never tempted her with word too large;
    But, as a brother to his sister, show'd
    Bashful sincerity and comely love.
  • * I. Taylor
    • Let us extenuate , conceal, adorn the unpleasing reality.
  • (obsolete) To lower or degrade; to detract from.
  • * Milton
    • Who can extenuate thee?