mitigating
Reducing the severity
Mitigating means making something less severe, harmful, or painful.
Mitigating circumstances reduce the blame or punishment deserved: The judge considered mitigating factors before sentencing.
Mitigating measures limit damage: The company took steps to mitigate the environmental impact.
The word implies partial rather than complete relief—softening a blow rather than eliminating it.
Making less severe
- reducingMaking less or smaller
- diminishingBecoming progressively less
- easingReducing strain or difficulty
- relievingReducing discomfort or strain
softening · tempering · moderating · assuaging · palliating · attenuating · lightening · dampening
alleviating
Making less severe
- reducingMaking less or smaller
- diminishingBecoming progressively less
- easingReducing strain or difficulty
relieving · softening · tempering · moderating · assuaging · palliating · attenuating · lightening · dampening · blunting
mitigatingaggravating
Causing irritation or worsening
exacerbating · worsening · intensifying · compounding · magnifying
mitigatingagitating
Disturbing or stirring up
inflaming · provoking · inciting · enraging · irritating
- mitigating circumstancesConditions lessening apparent guilt
- mitigating factorConsideration lessening culpability
- risk mitigationReducing exposure to threats
- damage mitigationReducing harm's extent
- flood mitigationReducing overflow damage risk
- climate change mitigationLessening greenhouse gas output