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mitigate

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Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
13
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈmɪt.ɪ.ɡeɪt/

Definition of mitigate

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (transitive)To reduce, lessen, or decrease and thereby to make less severe or easier to bear.
    “Measures are pursuing to prevent or mitigate the usual consequences of such outrages, and with the hope of their succeeding at least to avert general hostility.”
    “But in yielding to it the retaliation has been mitigated as much as possible, both in its extent and in its character...”
    “Then they tell us that vaccination will mitigate the disease that it will make it milder.”
    “Then I discovered the brilliance of the landscape around was mitigated by blue spectacles.”
    “The plague had not been kind to him, yet had left him this small furry thing to mitigate his sorrow; and when one is very young, one can find great relief in the lively antics of a black kitten.”
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verb

  1. (transitive)To reduce, lessen, or decrease and thereby to make less severe or easier to bear.
    “Measures are pursuing to prevent or mitigate the usual consequences of such outrages, and with the hope of their succeeding at least to avert general hostility.”
    “But in yielding to it the retaliation has been mitigated as much as possible, both in its extent and in its character...”
    “Then they tell us that vaccination will mitigate the disease that it will make it milder.”
    “Then I discovered the brilliance of the landscape around was mitigated by blue spectacles.”
    “The plague had not been kind to him, yet had left him this small furry thing to mitigate his sorrow; and when one is very young, one can find great relief in the lively antics of a black kitten.”
  2. (transitive)To downplay.
  3. (intransitive, proscribed)To give force or effect toward preventing a problem.
    “We've mitigated against the chance of flooding.”

adj

  1. (obsolete)Mitigated, alleviated.

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Etymology

From Middle English mitigaten (“to relieve pain, soothe; (swelling) to abate; (hemorrhoids) to relieve; (the mind) to placate, appease; to end, check; to stop, cease”), from mitigat(e) (“mitigated, alleviated, relived”,…

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From Middle English mitigaten (“to relieve pain, soothe; (swelling) to abate; (hemorrhoids) to relieve; (the mind) to placate, appease; to end, check; to stop, cease”), from mitigat(e) (“mitigated, alleviated, relived”, also used as the past participle of mitigaten) + -en (verb-forming suffix), borrowed from Latin mītigātus, the perfect passive participle of mītigō (“to make soft, ripe; to tame, pacify”), from mītis (“gentle, mild, ripe”) + -igō (“to do, make”), of uncertain origin, but perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁y- (“mild, soft”).

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