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Allay :: Allay (v. t.) To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate; as, to allay the severity of affliction or the bitterness of adversity..

Mitigate :: Mitigate (v. t.) To make less severe, intense, harsh, rigorous, painful, etc.; to soften; to meliorate; to alleviate; to diminish; to lessen; as, to mitigate heat or cold; to mitigate grief..

Balm :: Balm (n.) Anything that heals or that mitigates pain.

Mitigate :: Mitigate (v. t.) To make mild and accessible; to mollify; -- applied to persons.

Febrifuge :: Febrifuge (n.) A medicine serving to mitigate or remove fever.

Aslake :: Aslake (v. t. & i.) To mitigate; to moderate; to appease; to abate; to diminish.

Immitigable :: Immitigable (a.) Not capable of being mitigated, softened, or appeased..

Assuage :: Assuage (v. t.) To soften, in a figurative sense; to allay, mitigate, ease, or lessen, as heat, pain, or grief; to appease or pacify, as passion or tumult; to satisfy, as appetite or desire..

Paregoric :: Paregoric (n.) A medicine that mitigates pain; an anodyne; specifically, camphorated tincture of opium; -- called also paregoric elexir..

Mitigation :: Mitigation (n.) The act of mitigating, or the state of being mitigated; abatement or diminution of anything painful, harsh, severe, afflictive, or calamitous; as, the mitigation of pain, grief, rigor, severity, punishment, or penalty..

Alleviate :: Alleviate (v. t.) To lighten or lessen (physical or mental troubles); to mitigate, or make easier to be endured; as, to alleviate sorrow, pain, care, etc. ; -- opposed to aggravate..

Mitigative :: Mitigative (a.) Tending to mitigate; alleviating.

Palliate :: Palliate (a.) Eased; mitigated; alleviated.

Mitigatory :: Mitigatory (a.) Tending to mitigate or alleviate; mitigative.

Arrant :: Arrant (a.) Notoriously or preeminently bad; thorough or downright, in a bad sense; shameless; unmitigated; as, an arrant rogue or coward..

Vaccination :: Vaccination (n.) The act, art, or practice of vaccinating, or inoculating with the cowpox, in order to prevent or mitigate an attack of smallpox. Cf. Inoculation..

Lenitive :: Lenitive (n.) That which softens or mitigates; that which tends to allay passion, excitement, or pain; a palliative..

Soften :: Soften (v. t.) To compose; to mitigate; to assuage.

Balm :: Balm (v. i.) To anoint with balm, or with anything medicinal. Hence: To soothe; to mitigate..

Adaunt :: Adaunt (v. t.) To daunt; to subdue; to mitigate.

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