extenuate

1. Nothing can extenuate such appalling behavior.
   这种骇人听闻的行径罪不可恕。
2. It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter.
   诸位啊，掩饰这一切都是徒劳的。
3. He thought it necessary to extenuate the length of time he kept the dinner on the table.
   他认为必须解释一下为何把晚餐留在桌上那么久。
4. Extenuate civic "Hot-island effect";
   减轻城市热岛效应；
5. Conclusion Integrated Chinese and Western medicine treatment of mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis could extenuate markedly the recurrence rate of disease and the sideeffect of prednisone.
   结论中西医结合治疗激素敏感型系膜增生性肾炎，可以明显减少复发率及强的松的副作用。
6. It might extenuate the heart and lung injury by hypothermia and ischemia reperfusion during cardiopulmonary bypass. Cardiac conducting block might be prevented during operation.
   结论浅低温体外循环心脏跳动中心内直视手术技术安全可行，可有效减轻低温和缺血再灌注对心肺等脏器的损伤作用，有利于避免术中心脏传导阻滞的发生。
7. Conclusion Emodin can reduce the inflammatory response and extenuate the damage to intestinal mucosa in abdominal infection of rats.
   结论：大黄素能减轻CLP所致腹腔感染大鼠的炎症反应和肠粘膜的损伤。
8. And in the design of the additional layer of the noise-damping tower, the light-weight steel framework, the light-weight wall body and the rubber isolating layer are adopted to extenuate the shaking.
   在加层设计中，有效地运用了轻钢结构体系、轻质墙体和橡胶垫隔震层来减轻震动的作用。
9. EA could extenuate cellular edema and mitochondrial swelling in ischemic rats.
   电针治疗还可减轻脑缺血后细胞水肿及线粒体肿胀程度。
10. Tongue and pulse: light tongue texture, fat tongue body or with teeth imprints, thin and white tongue moss and extenuate pulse.
    舌脉：舌质淡，舌体胖或有齿印，苔薄白，脉细弱或弦细。
11. After oral administration, BPs significantly improved pathological injury. Inflammation were reduced, alveolar hemorrhage were extenuate, alveolar wall and inflammatory cell infiltration were decreased.
    口服给药后，柴胡明显改善了病理损伤，病理切片显示给药后炎症程度明显减轻，肺泡腔出血明显减少，肺泡壁变薄，炎性细胞浸润减少。

verb

1. lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of
   1. The circumstances extenuate the crime

   Synonym:    palliatemitigate