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Moderating

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Alleviative 84% connected

Tending to alleviate.

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Alleviative 84% connected

Tending to alleviate.

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Alleviatory 84% connected

Alleviative.

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Alleviatory 84% connected

Alleviative.

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Anodyne 84% connected

Serving to assuage pain; soothing.

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Anodyne 84% connected

Serving to assuage pain; soothing.

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Lenitive 84% connected

Having the quality of softening or mitigating, as pain or acrimony; assuasive; emollient.

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Lenitive 84% connected

Having the quality of softening or mitigating, as pain or acrimony; assuasive; emollient.

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Mitigative 84% connected

Tending to mitigate; alleviating.

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Mitigative 84% connected

Tending to mitigate; alleviating.

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Mitigatory 84% connected

Tending to mitigate or alleviate; mitigative.

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Mitigatory 84% connected

Tending to mitigate or alleviate; mitigative.

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Palliative 84% connected

Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate.

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Palliative 84% connected

Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate.

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Tempering 84% connected

of Temper

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Tempering 84% connected

of Temper

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Weakening 84% connected

of Weaken

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Weakening 84% connected

of Weaken

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