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mitigate
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES extenuating/mitigating circumstances (= conditions that make it reasonable for someone to break the rules or law ) ▪ Hunger and poverty are not treated by the courts as extenuating circumstances. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "relieve (pain)," from Latin mitigatus , past participle of mitigare "soften, make tender, ripen, mellow, tame," figuratively, "make mild or gentle, pacify, soothe," ultimately from mitis "gentle, soft" (from PIE *mei- "mild") + root of agere ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of; "The circumstances extenuate the crime" [syn: extenuate , palliate ] make less severe or harsh; "mitigating circumstances"
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mitigate \Mit"i*gate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mitigated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Mitigating .] [L. mitigatus, p. p. of mitigare to soften, mitigate; mitis mild, soft + the root of agere to do, drive.] To make less severe, intense, harsh, rigorous, painful, etc.; ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To reduce, lessen, or decrease. 2 (context transitive English) To downplay.
Usage examples of mitigate.
Alton is endangering his life, or materially impairing his health, I wish it mitigated as far as it can be consistently with his safe detention.
Corva, he is attempting to establish what he believes are extenuating and mitigating circumstances for the crime which you have proven.
Corva, asked me if I would like to make a sworn statement in extenuation or mitigation on my own behalf, I told him I could think of no extenuating or mitigating circumstances that I could swear to.
But the only way of mitigating factiousness and misunderstanding is by means of some machinery of mutual consultation, which may help to remedy grievances and whose decision shall determine the political action taken in the name of the whole community.
Only from the tennis-court building, in its secluded corner of the famous demesne, did gleams of gaslight faintly mitigate the dank, muffling vapour.
Fire Brigade vehicles, one of them of the new horseless type, pallidly mitigated the fog, and I saw that the man who had called to me was Hobday, the hall porter of the house.
The cruel and unrelenting spirit of Edward, though inured to the ferocity of civil wars, was at the same time extremely devoted to the softer passions, which, without mitigating his severe temper, maintained a great influence over him, and shared his attachment with the pursuits of ambition and the thirst of military glory.
Indian subcontinent, mitigated only by the rapid mobilization of hundreds of kinetics when the precog had come in.
Indian subcontinent, mitigated only by the rapid mobilization of hundreds of kinetics when the precog provide had come in.
I did recall that their insistent percussion had mitigated my enjoyment of the Mumm I was downing at a pace I would later regret.
Mercifully they were to some extent mitigated by sleep, for even in such a position as ours wearied nature will sometimes assert itself.
Then they understanding the whole matter, endeavoured to mitigate the ire of Venus in this sort : What is the cause Madam, or how hath your son so offended, that you shold so greatly accuse his love, and blame him by reason that he is amorous?
Together the Edenists had toughed it out, their minds embraced, sharing and mitigating the pain.
The cruel treatment of the insolvent debtors of the state, is attested, and was perhaps mitigated by a very humane edict of Constantine, who, disclaiming the use of racks and of scourges, allots a spacious and airy prison for the place of their confinement.
Major Domo had done his best to mitigate the more brutal requirements of his job, and he and the Archon had eventually achieved a degree of mutual respect.