Extricate vs Extenuate - What's the difference?
extricate | extenuate |
To free, disengage, loosen, or untangle.
(rare) To free from intricacies or perplexity
* 1662: Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue Two)
To make thin or slender; to draw out so as to lessen the thickness.
* Grew
* Charlotte Brontë, Shirley
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 ,
* I. Taylor
(obsolete) To lower or degrade; to detract from.
* Milton
In lang=en terms the difference between extricate and extenuate
is that extricate is to free, disengage, loosen, or untangle while extenuate is 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.As verbs the difference between extricate and extenuate
is that extricate is to free, disengage, loosen, or untangle while extenuate is to make thin or slender; to draw out so as to lessen the thickness.extricate
English
Verb
(extricat)- I finally managed to extricate myself from the tight jacket.
- The firemen had to use the jaws of life to extricate Monica from the car wreck.
- Your argumentation ... is invelloped with certain intricacies, that are not easie to be extricated .
References
* ----extenuate
English
Verb
(en-verb)- His body behind the head becomes broad, from whence it is again extenuated all the way to the tail.
- 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
- 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.
- Let us extenuate , conceal, adorn the unpleasing reality.
- Who can extenuate thee?
