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Mitigation definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MITIGA'TION, n. [L. mitigatio.] Alleviation; abatement or diminution of any thing painful, harsh, severe, afflictive or calamitous; as the mitigation of pain, grief, rigor, severity, punishment or penalty.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious [syn: extenuation, mitigation, palliation]
2: a partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances [syn: extenuation, mitigation]
3: the action of lessening in severity or intensity; "the object being control or moderation of economic depressions" [syn: moderation, mitigation]

Merriam Webster's

noun see mitigate

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Mitigation Mit`i*ga"tion, n. [OE. mitigacioun, F. mitigation, fr. L. mitigatio.] 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. If someone, especially in a court, is told something in mitigation, they are told something that makes a crime or fault easier to understand and excuse. (FORMAL) Kieran Coonan QC told the judge in mitigation that the offences had been at the lower end of the scale... PHRASE: PHR with cl 2. Mitigation is a reduction in the unpleasantness, seriousness, or painfulness of something. (FORMAL) ...the mitigation or cure of a physical or mental condition. = alleviation

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Alleviation, moderation, relief, abatement, diminution.

Moby Thesaurus

abatement, about-face, abridgment, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, allayment, alleviation, allowance, alteration, amelioration, analgesia, anesthesia, anesthetizing, apostasy, appeasement, assuagement, attenuation, attrition, benevolence, betterment, blunting, break, calming, change, change of heart, changeableness, clemency, color, commiseration, compassion, condolence, constructive change, continuity, contraction, conversion, dampening, damping, deadening, debilitation, decontamination, decrease, decrement, decrescence, deduction, defection, deflation, degeneration, degenerative change, demulsion, depreciation, depression, deterioration, deviation, devitalization, difference, dilution, diminishment, diminution, discontinuity, divergence, diversification, diversion, diversity, dulcification, dulling, dying, dying off, ease, easement, easing, effemination, enervation, enfeeblement, evisceration, exhaustion, extenuating circumstances, extenuation, extenuative, fade-out, falling-off, fatigue, favor, feeling, fitting, flip-flop, forbearance, forgiveness, gilding, gloss, grace, gradual change, humanity, hushing, improvement, inanition, kindness, languishment, leniency, lessening, letdown, letup, lightening, loosening, lowering, lulling, melioration, mercy, miniaturization, modification, modulation, mollification, numbing, overthrow, pacification, palliation, palliative, pardon, pathos, pity, qualification, quarter, quietening, quieting, radical change, re-creation, realignment, redesign, reduction, reform, reformation, relaxation, relief, remaking, remedy, remission, renewal, reprieve, reshaping, restructuring, reversal, revival, revivification, revolution, ruth, sagging, salving, scaling down, self-pity, shift, simplicity, slackening, softening, soothing, subduement, subtraction, sudden change, switch, sympathy, tempering, thinning, total change, tranquilization, transition, turn, turnabout, upheaval, variation, variety, varnish, violent change, weakening, whitewash, whitewashing, worsening