Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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alibi | Yes | No | Yes | No |
mitigation | Yes | No | No | No |
alibi (noun) | mitigation (noun) |
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(law) a defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question | to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious |
a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc. | the action of lessening in severity or intensity |
a partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances |
alibi (verb) | mitigation (verb) |
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exonerate by means of an alibi |