mitigating (?.)
- abating
- allaying
- alleviating
- alleviative
- altering
- analgesic
- anesthetic
- anodyne
- assuaging
- assuasive
- balmy
- balsamic
- benumbing
- blunting
- bounding
- cathartic
- chastening
- cleansing
- cushioning
- dampening
- damping
- deadening
- demulcent
- diminishing
- dulling
- easing
- emollient
- excusatory
- extenuating
- extenuatory
- justifying
- lenitive
- lessening
- limitative
- limiting
- mitigative
- mitigatory
- modificatory
- modifying
- modulatory
- numbing
- pain-killing
- palliative
- purgative
- qualificative
- qualificatory
- qualifying
- reducing
- relaxing
- relieving
- remedial
- restricting
- restrictive
- softening
- soothing
- subduing
- tempering
- vindicating