Mitigated
[mɪt,ɪgeɪtid]
Definition
(adj.) made less severe or intense; 'he gladly accepted the mitigated penalty' .
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Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Mitigate
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Examples
- She hung over the patient in agony, which was not mitigated when her thoughts wandered towards her babes, for whom she feared infection. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Such a lady gave a neighborliness to both rank and religion, and mitigated the bitterness of uncommuted tithe. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The illness lasted long, left her very weak, and returned at intervals, though with mitigated severity, again and again. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The acute economic clashes of the earlier period had been mitigated by rough adjustments. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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