0 to make something less harmful, unpleasant, or bad: --
1 to make something less severe or less unpleasant: --
2 to make something less harmful, unpleasant, or bad: --
3 situations that are not an excuse for a crime, but that a court of law may consider to be important enough to reduce the blame or punishment of the accused person: --
The judge said that there were no mitigating circumstances that would result in a lesser punishment.
In so doing, it mitigates the often-remarked chasm between experimental researchers and applied practitioners of reminiscence and life review interventions.
Does the role of family networks in migration reinforce or mitigate such differences?
This benefit, however, is partly mitigated by neutralizing antibodies that were detectable in 38% to 42% of patients by year 3 (27;46).
Potential crises will be postponed or mitigated as a result.
For the defender, the actual costs of fighting are mitigated by the payoff he receives from continuing possession.
These may serve to mitigate the general severity.
It can be hunted down, challenged to reveal itself and then eliminated, mitigated, or accepted.
An orientation to the appropriateness of utilizing epistemic phrases in engaging in "amicable" disagreements by delaying and mitigating a dispreferred is demonstrated several lines down.
