mitigating

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mitigating - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  mitigating \mitigating\ adj.
     serving to reduce blame; -- of situations; as, mitigating
     factors; mitigating circumstances. Opposite of aggravating.
     [Narrower terms: exculpatory]
  
     Syn: extenuating.
          [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]

  Mitigate \Mit"i*gate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mitigated; p. pr. &
     vb. n. Mitigating.] [L. mitigatus, p. p. of mitigare to
     soften, mitigate; mitis mild, soft + the root of agere to do,
     drive.]
     1. To make less severe, intense, harsh, rigorous, painful,
        etc.; to soften; to meliorate; to alleviate; to diminish;
        to lessen; as, to mitigate heat or cold; to mitigate
        grief.
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     2. To make mild and accessible; to mollify; -- applied to
        persons. [Obs.]
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              This opinion . . . mitigated kings into companions.
                                                    --Burke.
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     Syn: To alleviate; assuage; allay. See Alleviate.
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mitigating - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  58 Moby Thesaurus words for "mitigating":
     abating, allaying, alleviating, alleviative, altering, analgesic,
     anesthetic, anodyne, assuaging, assuasive, balmy, balsamic,
     benumbing, blunting, bounding, cathartic, chastening, cleansing,
     cushioning, dampening, damping, deadening, demulcent, diminishing,
     dulling, easing, emollient, excusatory, extenuating, extenuatory,
     justifying, lenitive, lessening, limitative, limiting, mitigative,
     mitigatory, modificatory, modifying, modulatory, numbing,
     pain-killing, palliative, purgative, qualificative, qualificatory,
     qualifying, reducing, relaxing, relieving, remedial, restricting,
     restrictive, softening, soothing, subduing, tempering,
     vindicating