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Mitigate

//ˈmɪt.ɪ.ɡeɪt//

Definitions

verbmitigates · mitigating · mitigated

1
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.
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alleviate check diminish
2
To downplay.
3
To give force or effect toward preventing a problem.
We've mitigated against the chance of flooding.
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militate

adjmore mitigate · most mitigate

1
Mitigated, alleviated.

Word Origin

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, al...

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