Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To moderate (a quality or condition) in force or intensity; alleviate. See Synonyms at relieve.
- v. To become milder.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To make milder or more tolerable; reduce in amount or degree, as something objectionable, reprehensible, distressing, harmful, etc.; moderate; alleviate; assuage.
- To soften; mollify; make mild and accessible.
- Synonyms Alleviate, Relieve, etc. See alleviate.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To make less severe, intense, harsh, rigorous, painful, etc.; to soften; to meliorate; to alleviate; to diminish; to lessen
- v. obsolete To make mild and accessible; to mollify; -- applied to persons.
WordNet 3.0
- v. make less severe or harsh
- v. lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of
Etymologies
- Middle English mitigaten, from Latin mītigāre, mītigāt- : mītis, soft + agere, to drive, do; see act. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Whether or not preventative care will mitigate is debatable.”
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“The easies way to mitigate is to lock down the desktops, have specific/tight firewall rules, and do content filtering.”
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“Stating reasons in direct, honest terms mitigate fears you're looking for temporary job”
“If the owner chooses to mitigate, that is the business judgment made by the owner.”
“The bank, on an analysts 'call this month, said it would "mitigate" lower service charge income by considering moves such as imposing account maintenance fees.”
“They made no secret of how they plan to "mitigate" the effects.”
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“Since the bills were introduced, lawmakers have made changes that eliminate or extend deadlines for setting some of the new safety standards; give the transportation secretary the discretion to set rules that had been mandated in earlier versions; and require safety standards to "mitigate" runaway acceleration rather than "prevent" the problem, records show.”
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“Frankly, it's laughable (not to mention offensive) to accept the Corps'premise that it's possible to actually "mitigate" the effects of mine operations -- you simply can't replace a buried headwater stream by constructing a gravel-lined drainage channel.”
“Since when do instances of political oversight "mitigate" journalistic oversight?”
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“Now that we have created huge financial bubbles, through the creation of money and credit, to "mitigate" the ill-effects of the destruction of capital, we have a problem.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mitigate’.
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GRE 2014
abate, abdicate, abase, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abortive, abound, abrasive, abreast, abridge and 1577 more...
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EN - confusables
Similar words meaning different things
torturous, wreathe, tortuous, wreath, titivate, titillate, stationary, storey, septic, principal, principle, story and 134 more...
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Classic
aberration, abstruse, anomaly, assiduous, august, banal, boisterous, dulcet, epitome, impudent, insolent, mellifluous and 401 more...
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GRE Barron's 800
abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abject, abjure, abscission, abscond, abstemious, abstinence, abysmal, accretion and 787 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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501
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aberration, abstruse, anomaly, assiduous, august, banal, boisterous, dulcet, epitome, impudent, insolent, mellifluous and 401 more...
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bad memory
copper, anvil, oblique, thrust, shrine, welfare, farewell, bitter, faction, sectarian, tangible, spectacle and 134 more...
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501
Classic
irk, teem, blight, pith, moot, mete, ire, bane, bilk, boor, elan, ado and 401 more...
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501
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aberration, abstruse, anomaly, assiduous, august, banal, boisterous, dulcet, epitome, impudent, insolent, mellifluous and 401 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2046 more...
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GRE
droll, dyspeptic, ebullient, ardor, edify, efficacy, malinger, mannered, martinet, maudlin, mendacious, mendicant and 101 more...
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general search words
words when I found them in the articles
benign, pantomime, deregulation, regressive, morose, staid, mercurial, temperament, ludicrous, fallacy, discord, afloat and 17 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6689 more...
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scholarly writing words
decrement, replete, impel, iterative, subsume, tacit, vex, denote, impart, ascertain, coalesce, extant and 49 more...
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aberrant, aberration, aboveboard, abrasive, abstemious, acme, admonish, affable, affluent, alacrity, allegory, alleviate and 1824 more...
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letters starting with m
mitigate, maudlin, magnanimity, magnanimity, malleable, maverick, maverick, mendacious, metamorphosis, meticulous, misanthrope, mollify and 2 more...
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oroboros Also see: ameliorate. Nov 17, 2007