What is the meaning of mitigation?

noun

  • To act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious.
  • A partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances.
  • The action of lessening in severity or intensity.
    • usage: "the object being control or moderation of economic depressions"
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