Mitigate
['mɪtɪgeɪt] or ['mɪtɪɡet]
Definition
(verb.) make less severe or harsh; 'mitigating circumstances'.
Checked by John--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To make less severe, intense, harsh, rigorous, painful, etc.; to soften; to meliorate; to alleviate; to diminish; to lessen; as, to mitigate heat or cold; to mitigate grief.
(v. t.) To make mild and accessible; to mollify; -- applied to persons.
Typed by Gwendolyn
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Moderate, alleviate, appease, soothe, soften, mollify, pacify, assuage, quiet, still, calm, quell, allay, abate, temper, attemper, lessen, dull, qualify, blunt.
Typist: Morton
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See AGGRAVATE]
Typist: Toni
Definition
v.t. to make more easily borne: to lessen the severity of: to temper: to reduce in amount (as evil).—adjs. Mit′igable that can be mitigated; Mit′igant mitigating.—n. Mitigā′tion act of mitigating: alleviation: abatement.—adjs. Mit′igative Mit′igatory tending to mitigate: soothing.—n. Mit′igator one who mitigates.
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Examples
- She bent forward, lowering her voice to mitigate the horror. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Almost every attempt to mitigate the hardships of industrialism has had to deal with the bogey of liberty. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I am quite sure that you can mitigate in no other way the wrong and harm you have done. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Lighten any check, mitigate the destruction ever so little, and the number of the species will almost instantaneously increase to any amount. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Hold, father, said the Jew, mitigate and assuage your choler. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- 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.
- By irrigation, on the other hand, man restores the desert to life and mitigates climate. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Checker: Nellie