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English to English noun
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to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious |  | source: wordnet30
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a partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances | | source: wordnet30
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the action of lessening in severity or intensity | | Example: the object being control or moderation of economic depressions
source: wordnet30
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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: webster1913
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