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mitigate
/ˈmɪtəˌɡeɪt/
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What does mitigate mean?
verb
- To reduce, lessen, or decrease and thereby to make less severe or easier to bear.
- To downplay.
- To give force or effect toward preventing a problem.
More meanings (1)
adjective
- (obsolete) Mitigated, alleviated.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈmɪtəˌɡeɪt/
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It exasperated the ferocity of a character which neither the laws nor the religion under which they lived tended to mitigate.
Lighten any check, mitigate the destruction ever so little, and the number of the species will almost instantaneously increase to any amount.
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You severely made them answer for their clothes, in a manner which you have seen good reason, in later life, to mitigate.
To mitigate life for a woman of ninety was an unfailing refutation of the statement that the Settlement was designed for the young.
The general democratic movement of modern times, in its frantic struggle to mitigate all differences, is now invading even the world of sex.