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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To moderate (a quality or condition) in force or intensity; alleviate. See Synonyms at relieve.
  2. v. To become milder.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To make milder or more tolerable; reduce in amount or degree, as something objectionable, reprehensible, distressing, harmful, etc.; moderate; alleviate; assuage.
  2. To soften; mollify; make mild and accessible.
  3. Synonyms Alleviate, Relieve, etc. See alleviate.

Wiktionary

  1. v. transitive To reduce, lessen, or decrease.
  2. v. transitive To downplay.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To make less severe, intense, harsh, rigorous, painful, etc.; to soften; to meliorate; to alleviate; to diminish; to lessen
  2. v. obsolete To make mild and accessible; to mollify; -- applied to persons.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. make less severe or harsh
  2. v. lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of

Etymologies

  1. Middle English mitigaten, from Latin mītigāre, mītigāt- : mītis, soft + agere, to drive, do; see act. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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