moderate
adjective
kept or keeping within reasonable or proper limits; not extreme, excessive, or intense.
Used to describe an action that will be fully completed or achieved by a specific point in the future.
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"Let us hope, however," the Comtesse de Lorgnes interposed sweetly, "by that time this so dreadful tempest will have moderated."
From Alias the Lone Wolf by Louis Joseph Vance