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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
mitigate
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
■ NOUN
impact
▪ Environmental science is almost exclusively geared to measuring, managing and mitigating downstream environmental impacts caused by our industrial way of life.
▪ Every effort to mitigate the impact will encourage the dons to raise the tuitions ever higher.
▪ The rainforest is also held to be useful to us because it will help to mitigate the worst impacts of global warming.
problem
▪ He mitigated the problem by saying that the Son's generation by the Father is no event in time but is eternal.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
mitigating circumstances/factors
▪ A good barrister - he'd known Thomas Walters for years - would be able to argue mitigating circumstances.
▪ I understand that there are mitigating circumstances, programming complications, contracts, etc.
▪ In its defence, the Government pleads mitigating circumstances.
▪ In the absence of mitigating factors the virus is likely to hit a dead end wherever strict role separation is practiced.
▪ Juries have long stretched notions of self-defense or extended implicit clemency to recognize mitigating factors such as provocation and histories of abuse.
▪ Lancashire were subsequently fined £500, not £700, because of mitigating circumstances.
▪ Now, that decision has been overturned although the appeal judges spoke of strong mitigating factors in the case.
▪ There were also mitigating factors, Lord Lane said.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ We have to figure out a way to mitigate the costs.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Switching assignments, working on another team, or making other kinds of adjustments can mitigate anger.
▪ The effect is to mitigate the speaker's refusal of a reasonable request.
▪ These are not mitigated by the presence of recognizable and attractive actors and actresses.
▪ You are obliged to mitigate your losses; this duty is explained in Chapter 18.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mitigate

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.]

  1. To make less severe, intense, harsh, rigorous, painful, etc.; to soften; to meliorate; to alleviate; to diminish; to lessen; as, to mitigate heat or cold; to mitigate grief.

  2. To make mild and accessible; to mollify; -- applied to persons. [Obs.]

    This opinion . . . mitigated kings into companions.
    --Burke.

    Syn: To alleviate; assuage; allay. See Alleviate.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mitigate

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 "do, make, act" (see act). First element is from PIE root *mei- "soft, mild." Related: Mitigated; mitigating; mitigates.

Wiktionary
mitigate

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To reduce, lessen, or decrease. 2 (context transitive English) To downplay.

WordNet
mitigate

  1. v. lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of; "The circumstances extenuate the crime" [syn: extenuate, palliate]

  2. make less severe or harsh; "mitigating circumstances"

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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.