Friday, September 14, 2012

mitigation

(n.): lessening of something that causes suffering

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  1. In mitigation, the convict received less harsh punishments.

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    1. In mitigation, the convict receives a more lenient punishment.

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  2. The criminal received mitigation in punishment because he confessed himself for committing the crime.

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    1. The criminal received mitigation for his punishment because he confessed to committing the crime.

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  3. I listen to music as a mitigation of stress.

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  4. Medicines provide mitigation to patients' sufferings.

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  5. The afternoon snack is a mitigation that relief my hunger

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  6. The doctor offered a rehabilitative therapy to magitate the after-effects of strokes and heart attacks to the patient.

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  7. Despite the pleas of insanity from the defendant, he could not mitigate his sentence

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    1. Ben, please post your sentence again to receive full credit for your vocabulary homework.

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  9. Ben's spelling mistake was of such a dramatic degree that Ms.Pamela needed to mitigate what the English Department called "The English Apocalypse".

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  10. The man had to mitigate the other man's punishment because he was too much of a coward to take the actual punishment?

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  11. The medicine serves as a mitigation of fever.

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  12. The doctor gave him some pain reliever to mitigate his agony.

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  13. synonym: alleviation
    both mitigation and alleviation mean to reduce in severity or pain of something.

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  14. The painkiller Mikhail took served as a mitigation for his fractured bone.

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  15. Mitigation
    Andy fell down the stairs and hit his head on handle bar, his attempted mitigation of rubbing his head just simply does not work.

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  16. Taylor Swift's songs are a mitigation from life.

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  17. Mitigation of headache is to just basically take pills.

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  18. Nightwish's transcending metal music provides mitigation from Taylor Swifts mindless rants.

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  19. Painkiller serves as a mitigation to almost all kinds of pain.

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  21. He did not provide any mitigation for his friend, for he believed in "no pain, no gain".

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