- 1. n. The act of mitigating, or the state of being mitigated; abatement or diminution of anything painful, harsh, severe, afflictive, or calamitous; as, the mitigation of pain, grief, rigor, severity, punishment, or penalty. Source: opted
- 2. n. to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious Source: wordnet
- 3. n. a partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances Source: wordnet
- 4. n. the action of lessening in severity or intensity Source: wordnet
- 5. The act of mitigating, or the state of being mitigated; abatement or diminution of anything painful, harsh, severe, afflictive, or calamitous; as, the mitigation of pain, grief, rigor, severity, punishment, or penalty. Syn. -- Alleviation; abatement; relief. Source: webster
- 6. The act of mitigating, or the state of being mitigated;abatement or diminution of anything painful, harsh, severe,afflictive, or calamitous; as, the mitigation of pain, grief, rigor,severity, punishment, or penalty. Source: adambom
- 7. n:100 n to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious n a partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances n the action of lessening in severity or intensity Source: ecdict
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