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mitigate


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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}. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  mitigate 
  v  :  lessen  or  to  try  to  lessen  the  seriousness  or  extent  of 
  "The  circumstances  extenuate  the  crime"  [syn:  {extenuate}, 
  {palliate}] 




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