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mitigated

[mit-i-geyt]

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verb (used with object)

to lessen in force or intensity, as wrath, grief, harshness, or pain; moderate.

to make less severe: to mitigate a punishment.

to make (a person, one's state of mind, disposition, etc.) milder or more gentle; mollify; appease.

verb (used without object)

to become milder; lessen in severity.

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Origin:
1375–1425; late Middle English mitigaten < Latin mītigātus (past participle of mītigāre to calm, soften, soothe), equivalent to mīt(is) mild, soft, gentle + -ig- (combining form of agere to do, cause to do, make) + -ātus -ate¹

Related forms

mit·i·ga·ble

[mit-i-guh-buhl] , adjective

mit·i·gat·ed·ly, adverb

mit·i·ga·tion, noun

mit·i·ga·tive, mit·i·ga·to·ry

[mit-i-guh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee] , adjective

mit·i·ga·tor, noun

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non·mit·i·ga·tive, adjective

non·mit·i·ga·to·ry, adjective

o·ver·mit·i·gate, verb, -gat·ed, -gat·ing.

un·mit·i·ga·ble, adjective

un·mit·i·ga·tive, adjective

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Can be confused: militate, mitigate (see usage note at the current entry).

Usage note
Mitigate, whose central meaning is “to lessen” or “make less severe,” is sometimes confused with militate, “to have effect or influence,” in the phrase mitigate against: This criticism in no way militates (not mitigates) against your going ahead with your research. Although this use of mitigate occasionally occurs in edited writing, it is rare and is widely regarded as an error.

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Example Sentences

Get them back in the labor force, and some of these problems are mitigated.

The fact that data is more difficult to atttain is mitigated if it is useful.

All of these effects can be mitigated by good policies, or exacerbated by bad ones.

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Get them back in the labor force, and some of these problems are mitigated.

The fact that data is more difficult to atttain is mitigated if it is useful.

All of these effects can be mitigated by good policies, or exacerbated by bad ones.

Their error is only slightly mitigated in that the incorrect quotation is ubiquitous.

We've entered an era where security threats can be hidden in a microorganism and pandemics can be mitigated from a laboratory.

Thus is the mystery of otherness constantly mitigated by the comfort of the familiar.

The process has been tough, he says, but some of the pain has been mitigated by involving faculty members at every stage.

But while it can't be eliminated, it can be mitigated a bit.

Roof maintenance, repair, and shading issues may also be mitigated due to the small size of the micro-cells.

The lack of rigidity that comes with this age-old design is mitigated here.

In some cases, playful and decorative qualities are mitigated by flatfooted didacticism.

Of course, it might play out much differently than in this movie, and the effects might be mitigated by any number of factors.

Climate change will be mitigated by shifting investments to solutions that de-carbonise the entire energy value chain.

Bring them ashore and dispose of them safely and the problem will be mitigated somewhat.

The study, the researchers said, can help identify where such problems may occur and how they might be mitigated.

Panfilov's wife, with a dolorous sternness that is only finally mitigated by gentler emotions.

Of course, the abuses of top-down planning have been mitigated.

If all protocols and safety equipment are applied this can be mitigated but never fully eliminated.

There are drawbacks, which are mitigated somewhat by the advantages of digital capture.

Among policymakers, the conventional wisdom is that such selective brutality toward girls can be mitigated by two factors.

The blanket guarantee mitigated deleveraging pressure somewhat.

Greater temperatures are mitigated by greater re radiation into space.

Cheating is cheating, and its wrongness is not mitigated by how easy it might be.

Cost difference can be mitigated by careful shopping and budgeting.

Coal presents opportunities because of its size, and some challenges can be mitigated by careful study of the underlying issues.

Stewart's conviction was mitigated by the nature of the crime.

However, the world is anything but static: each environmental impact is mitigated by far more powerful forces.

So if the adjustment cannot be avoided, it must be managed and mitigated.

Even here, however, the international influence is mitigated by the solutions to the tropical climate.

These forces simply operate over ultra-long cycles and are mitigated for periods of time by the existence of patents.

Your choice of program may be mitigated by the financial package a school may offer its doctoral students.

But waning confidence will be mitigated by the boost that exports receive from the euro's plunge.

His theoretical generosity was sadly mitigated by the car being a kidney-rattling tin can.

Many economists argue that the impact of the crisis could be mitigated by stimulating domestic consumption.

But all those risks may be mitigated by the prestige of being asked to defuse a violent standoff on behalf of world powers.

Those risks can be mitigated with proper planning and an understanding of the often arcane rules involving gift giving.

But they said those effects could be mitigated by effective leadership.

Southwest's labor costs may become a problem at some point, but they are mitigated a bit by higher efficiencies.

Bills also points out that such tidal heat transfer could have also mitigated climate fluctuations.

Those are serious handicaps, but they could be mitigated if schools became more boy-friendly.

Top soil erosion can be mitigated by replacing the tractor with a mule.

We would all agree that the risk of a bank going under cannot be wiped out, but this risk can be reduced or mitigated.

So the effect of nuclear energy increase due to fission is greatly mitigated by high reactor temperature.

Where national ambitions led to strife since centuries, where wars, both political and economic mitigated growth and prosperity.

But the risk of giving credibility to something ridiculous by addressing it would be mitigated by the answer.

Would that have mitigated some of the economic and social.

How the bankers natural power may be mitigated is the million dollar question.

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Word Origin & History

mitigate

early 15c., from L. mitigatus, pp. of mitigare "make mild or gentle," ultimately from mitis "gentle, soft" + root of agere "do, make, act" (see act). First element is from PIE base *mei- "soft, mild." Related: Mitigated; mitigates.

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Medical Dictionary

mitigate mit·i·gate (mĭt'ĭ-gāt')
v. mit·i·gat·ed, mit·i·gat·ing, mit·i·gates
To moderate in force or intensity.

mit'i·ga'tion n.
mit'i·ga'tive or mit'i·ga·to'ry (-gə-tôr'ē) adj.

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