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