Verb

And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged ;

5. But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.

6. Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?

Verb

Measures are pursuing to prevent or mitigate the usual consequences of such outrages, and with the hope of their succeeding at least to avert general hostility.

But in yielding to it the retaliation has been mitigated as much as possible, both in its extent and in its character...

Then they tell us that vaccination will mitigate the disease that it will make it milder.

Then I discovered the brilliance of the landscape around was mitigated by blue spectacles.

The plague had not been kind to him, yet had left him this small furry thing to mitigate his sorrow; and when one is very young, one can find great relief in the lively antics of a black kitten.