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mitigation   (TTS Sound)

The noun mitigation has 3 senses

• extenuation, mitigation, palliation -- (to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious)


• extenuation, mitigation -- (a partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances)


• moderation, mitigation -- (the action of lessening in severity or intensity; "the object being control or moderation of economic depressions")