Crossword clues for moderating
moderating
The Collaborative International Dictionary
moderating \moderating\ adj. lessening in intensity or strength. Opposite of intensifying. [Narrower terms: tempering; weakening]
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of moderate English)
WordNet
adj. lessening in intensity or strength [ant: intensifying]
Usage examples of "moderating".
A republic of gods of such opposite tempers and interests required, in every system, the moderating hand of a supreme magistrate, who, by the progress of knowledge and flattery, was gradually invested with the sublime perfections of an Eternal Parent, and an Omnipotent Monarch.
On the intelligence of the victory he condescended to advance towards the frontier, with a view of moderating, by his presence and counsels, the pride of Galerius.
By moderating the force of the shower, and substituting tepid water, the most delicate persons can endure it and profit thereby.
Take then this rank of Comes Archiatrorum, and have the distinguished honour of presiding over so many skilled practitioners and of moderating their disputes.
King is happily shown in moderating the sentence of the law, where for certain reasons it bears with especial hardness on anyone.
Henry, observing the low condition of the crown, had laid a scheme for restoring his own authority, by acting as umpire between the parties, by moderating their differences, and by reducing both to a dependence upon himself.