mitigate (verb)

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• mitigate — ► VERB 1) make less severe, serious, or painful. 2) (mitigating) (of a fact or circumstance) lessening the gravity or culpability of an action. DERIVATIVES mitigation noun. USAGE The words mitigate and militate are often confused …   English terms dictionary

• mitigate — mit·i·gate / mi tə ˌgāt/ vb gat·ed, gat·ing vt: to lessen or minimize the severity of what actions the State took to mitigate the hazardous conditions Estate of Arrowwood v. State, 894 P.2d 642 (1995) factors that mitigate the crime see also… …   Law dictionary

• mitigate — UK US /ˈmɪtɪgeɪt/ verb [T] FORMAL ► to make something less harmful, unpleasant, or bad: »technologies that can mitigate global warming mitigate damage/risk »The company was criticized for failing to mitigate risks at the plant. mitigate the… …   Financial and business terms

• mitigate — verb /ˈmɪt.ɪ.ɡeɪt/ To reduce, lessen, or decrease. 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. Syn: check, diminish, ease …   Wiktionary

• mitigate — verb Mitigate is used with these nouns as the object: ↑effect, ↑impact, ↑problem, ↑risk …   Collocations dictionary

• mitigate — verb (T) formal to make a situation or the effects of something less unpleasant, harmful, or serious: Measures need to be taken to mitigate the environmental effects off burning more coal …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• mitigate — verb the worst symptoms have been mitigated Syn: alleviate, reduce, diminish, lessen, weaken, lighten, attenuate, take the edge off, allay, ease, assuage, palliate, relieve, tone down See note at alleviate Ant …   Thesaurus of popular words

• mitigate — Verb: To lessen in severity or burden. To reduce: as, where the crime of murder may be reduced to manslaughter by the production of evidence of the defendant s insanity. See Sinclair v State, 161 Miss 142, 132 So 581, 74 ALR 241. Noun: The… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• mitigate — [ mɪtɪgeɪt] verb [often as adjective mitigating] make less severe, serious, or painful. Derivatives mitigable adjective mitigation noun mitigator noun mitigatory adjective …   English new terms dictionary

• mitigate — UK [ˈmɪtɪɡeɪt] / US [ˈmɪtɪˌɡeɪt] verb [transitive] Word forms mitigate : present tense I/you/we/they mitigate he/she/it mitigates present participle mitigating past tense mitigated past participle mitigated formal to reduce the harmful effects of …   English dictionary

• mitigate — [c]/ˈmɪtəgeɪt / (say mituhgayt) verb (mitigated, mitigating) –verb (t) 1. to lessen in force or intensity (wrath, grief, harshness, pain, etc.): *It is true that after 1820 the reforms of Peel, Brougham and Lord John Russell mitigated the… …