Term: mitigating circumstance: (law) a circumstance that does not exonerate a person but which reduces the penalty associated with the offense
Candidate hypernym: psychological feature: a feature of the mental life of a living organism → 1
Candidate hypernym: rhizobiaceae: a small family of rod-shaped bacteria → 0
Candidate hypernym: highroad: a highway → 0
Candidate hypernym: manic-depressive: a person afflicted with manic-depressive illness → 0
Candidate hypernym: dilation: a lengthy discussion (spoken or written) on a particular topic → 0
Candidate hypernym: blackwater fever: severe and often fatal malaria characterized by kidney damage resulting in dark urine → 0
Candidate hypernym: uighur: the Turkic language spoken by approximately 7,000,000 Uighur in extreme northwestern China → 0
Candidate hypernym: interpretive dance: a form of modern dance in which the dancer's movements depict an emotion or tell a story → 0
Candidate hypernym: masterpiece: an outstanding achievement → 0
Candidate hypernym: echidna: a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to New Guinea → 0
Candidate hypernym: sesamoid bone: any of several small round bones formed in a tendon where it passes over a joint → 0