- Lessen in severity - Make less severe - Make less severe or painful - Moderate - To make less severe, intense, harsh, rigorous,
painful, etc.; to soften; to meliorate; to alleviate; to diminish; to
lessen; as, to mitigate heat or cold; to mitigate grief. - To make mild and accessible; to mollify; -- applied to
persons.
- Annoy - Exasperate - Make worse - Provoke - Scrambling avatar egg many make things worse - Tub thrown into untidy garage will cause irritation - Vat sitting in garage used to get on one’s nerves
- Abate (of storm) - Absence of difficulty - Absence of difficulty or effort - Alleviate - Alleviate the vowels for referee - Alleviate using greasepaint - Become less painful