Meaning of mitigation

Definition 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; "the object being control or moderation of economic depressions"

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