mitigation
Nouns
- (n) to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious extenuation, palliation,
- (n) a partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances extenuation,
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(n) the action of lessening in severity or intensity
- the object being control or moderation of economic depressions