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Moderating definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MOD'ERATING, ppr. Reducing in violence or excess; allaying; tempering; becoming more mild.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: lessening in intensity or strength [ant: intensifying]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Moderate Mod"er*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Moderated; p. pr. & vb. n. Moderating.] 1. To restrain from excess of any kind; to reduce from a state of violence, intensity, or excess; to keep within bounds; to make temperate; to lessen; to allay; to repress; to temper; to qualify; as, to moderate rage, action, desires, etc.; to moderate heat or wind. By its astringent quality, it moderates the relaxing quality of warm water. --Arbuthnot. To moderate stiff minds disposed to strive. --Spenser. 2. To preside over, direct, or regulate, as a public meeting; as, to moderate a synod.