Word Meanings - MITIGATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

• Betroth
  To contract to any one for a marriage; to engage or promise in order to marriage; to affiance; -- used esp. of a woman.
• Belight
  To illuminate.
• Beaus
  of Beau
• Stateless
  Without state or pomp.
• Benched
  of Bench
• Bedpan
  A pan for warming beds.
• BESCUMBERBESCUMMER
  To discharge ordure or dung upon. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
• Berained
  of Berain
• Bega
  See Bigha.
• Besmoke
  To foul with smoke.
• Betumbled
  of Betumble
• Bell crank
  A lever whose two arms form a right angle, or nearly a right angle, having its fulcrum at the apex of the angle. It is used in bell pulls and in changing the direction of bell wires at angles of rooms, etc., and also in machinery.
• Beautifying
  of Beautify
• Stateswoman
  A woman concerned in public affairs.
• Benedicite
  A canticle (the Latin version of which begins with this word) which may be used in the order for morning prayer in the Church of England. It is taken from an apocryphal addition to the third chapter of Daniel.
• Bedright Bedrite
  The duty or privilege of the marriage bed.
• Bereave
  To make destitute; to deprive; to strip; -- with of before the person or thing taken away.
• Beggarliness
  The quality or state of being beggarly; meanness.
• Bespangled
  of Bespangle
• Beach comber
  A long, curling wave rolling in from the ocean. See Comber.

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