Scrabble?! MODERATE

Definitions of MODERATE in various dictionaries:

noun - a person who takes a position in the political center

verb - preside over

verb - make less fast or intense

verb - lessen the intensity of

verb - make less severe or harsh

verb - make less strong or intense

verb - restrain

adj - being within reasonable or average limits

adj - not extreme

adj - marked by avoidance of extravagance or extremes

Being within reasonable limits; not excessive or extreme: a moderate price.

Not violent or subject to extremes; mild or calm; temperate: a moderate climate.

Of medium or average quantity or extent.

Of limited or average quality; mediocre.

One who holds or champions moderate views or opinions, especially in politics or religion.

To lessen the violence, severity, or extremeness of.

To preside over: She was chosen to moderate the convention.

To become less violent, severe, or extreme; abate.

The central meaning shared by these verb s is “to make less extreme or intense”: moderated the severity of the rebuke; qualified her criticism; admiration tempered with fear.

verb - to make less extreme