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- Dictionarymitigate/ˈmɪtɪɡeɪt/
verb
- 1. make (something bad) less severe, serious, or painful: "drainage schemes have helped to mitigate this problem"
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to make something less severe or less unpleasant: Getting a lot of sleep and drinking plenty of fluids can mitigate the effects of the flu.
The meaning of mitigate is straightforward enough: to make something—such as a problem, symptom, or punishment—less harsh or severe. Sometimes, however, mitigate appears where the similar-looking militate is expected.
MITIGATE definition: to reduce the harmful effects of something. Learn more.
mitigate something to make something less harmful, serious, etc. synonym alleviate. action to mitigate poverty; Soil erosion was mitigated by the planting of trees.
verb. To mitigate something means to make it less unpleasant, serious, or painful. [formal] ...ways of mitigating the effects of an explosion. [VERB noun] The cost of getting there is mitigated by Sydney's offer of a subsidy. [VERB noun] Synonyms: ease, moderate, soften, check More Synonyms of mitigate.
to make something less severe or less unpleasant: Getting a lot of sleep and drinking plenty of fluids can mitigate the effects of the flu.
Mitigate definition: to lessen in force or intensity, as wrath, grief, harshness, or pain; moderate. . See examples of MITIGATE used in a sentence.
The earliest known use of the adjective mitigate is in the Middle English period (1150—1500). OED's earliest evidence for mitigate is from before 1475, in R. Higden's Polychronicon.
Choose the verb mitigate when something lessens the unpleasantness of a situation. You can mitigate your parents' anger by telling them you were late to dinner because you were helping your elderly neighbor.
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