extenuating Synonyms

make excuses for redemptive redeeming qualifying qualificative purifying palliative palliating palliate offsetting modificatory moderating redemptory reducing remissive sanitizing redemptional absolvitory vindicatory vindicative vindicate vindicating varnishing tempering softening saving mitigative mitigate excusing excusatory exculpatory diminish diminishing defend compensatory compensating attenuating altering allowance excuse exonerative extenuation mitigating lowering lessen lessening justify justifying justificatory justificative