Associations to the word «Mitigation»

Wiktionary

MITIGATION, noun. Relief; alleviation

Dictionary definition

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

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats