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moderating

/adjective, noun mod-er-it, mod-rit; verb mod-uh-reyt/US // adjective, noun ˈmɒd ər ɪt, ˈmɒd rɪt; verb ˈmɒd əˌreɪt //

缓和,适应性,缓和的,缓和性

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : kept or keeping within reasonable or proper limits; not extreme, excessive, or intense: a moderate price.
    • : of medium quantity, extent, or amount: a moderate income.
    • : mediocre or fair: moderate talent.
    • : calm or mild, as of the weather.
    • : of or relating to moderates, as in politics or religion.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who is moderate in opinion or opposed to extreme views and actions, especially in politics or religion.
    • : a member of a political party advocating moderate reform.
v.有主动词 verb
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    mod·er·at·ed, mod·er·at·ing.

    • : to reduce the excessiveness of; make less violent, severe, intense, or rigorous: to moderate the sharpness of one's words.
    • : to preside over or at.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    mod·er·at·ed, mod·er·at·ing.

    • : to become less violent, severe, intense, or rigorous.
    • : to act as moderator; preside.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbrestrain, control
Synonyms
abate消减,削减,缩减,减轻alleviate减轻,纾解,缓解,缓和constrain约束力,约束,拘束,限制cool酷,冷却,酷酷的,清凉curb路边,遏止,路边的,马路牙子decrease减少,降低,下降,下跌die down消亡,衰亡,熄灭,灭亡diminish减弱,贬低,减轻,削弱lessen减轻,减少,减轻了,减低mitigate缓解,减轻,减轻影响,缓和modify修改,更改,改动,改装reduce减少,降低,削减,缩小slacken弛缓,松懈,松弛,弛缓的slow缓慢,慢,缓慢的,缓soften变得柔和,变得柔软,变得柔和了,变得柔和起来subdue制服,镇住了,收服,征服subside减退,消退,减弱,沉降temper节制,回火,脾气,锻炼tone down调低,淡化,淡化语气,调降wane衰败,衰落,衰微,衰弱allay缓解,安抚,缓和,劝说appease抚慰,绥靖,安抚,姑息assuage抚慰,劝慰,抚平,安抚calm平静,平息,平静的,平静下来chasten惩戒,责罚,督责,鞭笞check检查,检查一下decline衰退,减少,衰落,下降fall坠落,跌倒,跌落,摔倒modulate调制,调控,调变,调解mollify劝解,劝慰,抚慰,劝说pacify安抚,抚平,平定,抚慰qualify有资格,有资格的,符合条件,符合条件的quiet安静,安静的,宁静,静regulate监管,调节,规章制度,规章relent勉强,不舍得,勉强接受,手软relieve纾解,纾缓,缓解,纾解了repress压迫,压制,镇压,压抑soft-pedal软脚板,软式踏板,软踏板,软脚踏tame驯服,驯服的,驯化,驯养cool out冷静下来,冷静,冷静下来的,清凉剂ease off纾解,纾缓,缓和,缓解let up放过,放弃,放弃吧,放宽meet halfway中途相遇,半途而废,中途会面,中途相会play down贬低,衰减,跌宕起伏,贬低了
Antonyms

Examples

  • The process of disappointing your own base is brutally hard — just look at the endless fights between moderates and leftists on the Democratic side.

  • Still, the vaccine does cause some mild to moderate symptoms.

  • Early results from a trial showed the combination reduced virus levels in patients with mild to moderate Covid-19 and cut the rate of hospitalizations and emergency room visits.

  • Its current leader, after all, is one of those moderate Republican mayors.

  • This situation has loaded the cannons for claims of bias and censorship in how they moderated election-related content.

  • Hester is a longtime researcher on evidence-based methods of moderating drinking.

  • Nothing I hear from them suggests that the deportation figures are “moderating.”

  • LePage is up for re-election this year and has shown no signs of restraining his rhetoric or moderating his personality.

  • Open access to information beyond that available in the pulpit has already had a moderating effect on the stability of faith.

  • The Electoral College may be imperfect, but its moderating influence on the American politic should not be laughed off too easily.

  • The arrogant spending instinct had gained upon the moderating and self-restraining instinct.

  • Does it not occupy itself with regulating and moderating the passions and desires when the soul is not healthy?

  • Turning out on the morning of the 10th, we were delighted to find the sky clearing and the wind moderating.

  • It is vain to attempt to root it out; what it needs is moderating, regulating, subordinating.

  • Trade unionism seems to have the same moderating effect upon society as a wide diffusion of private property.