Mitigate

Verb

 * 1)  To reduce, lessen, or decrease.
 * 2) * 1795 — George Washington, Seventh State of the Union Address
 * 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.
 * 1) * 1813 — James Madison, Fifth State of the Union Address
 * But in yielding to it the retaliation has been mitigated as much as possible, both in its extent and in its character...
 * 1) * 1896 — Walter Hadwen, The Case Against Vaccination
 * Then they tell us that vaccination will mitigate the disease that it will make it milder.
 * 1) * 1901 — H. G. Wells, The First Men in the Moon, ch 7
 * Then I discovered the brilliance of the landscape around was mitigated by blue spectacles.
 * 1) * 1920 — H. P. Lovecraft, The Cats of Ulthar
 * The plague had not been kind to him, yet had left him this small furry thing to mitigate his sorrow; and when one is very young, one can find great relief in the lively antics of a black kitten.

Synonyms

 * check, diminish, ease, lighten, mollify, pacify, palliate

Antonyms

 * exacerbate, aggrandize, aggravate, incite, increase, intensify, irritate, worsen

Thesaurus
abate, accommodate, adapt, adjust, adjust to, allay, alleviate, allow for, alter, ameliorate, anesthetize, appease, assuage, attemper, attenuate, bank the fire, bate, be changed, be converted into, be renewed, benumb, better, blunt, bottom out, box in, break, break up, calm, change, chasten, checker, chop, chop and change, circumscribe, color, come about, come around, come round, condition, constrain, control, convert, cramp, cripple, cushion, damp, dampen, de-emphasize, deaden, deaden the pain, debilitate, decrease, deform, degenerate, denature, deteriorate, deviate, devitalize, dilute, diminish, diverge, diversify, downplay, dull, ease, ease matters, ease off, ease up, enervate, enfeeble, eviscerate, exhaust, extenuate, fit, flop, foment, give relief, gloss over, gruel, haul around, hedge, hedge about, ignore, improve, jibe, keep within bounds, lay, lay low, leaven, lenify, lessen, let down, let up, let up on, lighten, limit, loose, loosen, lull, make allowance for, meliorate, mince, moderate, modify, modulate, mollify, mutate, narrow, numb, obtund, overthrow, pad, palliate, placate, play down, poultice, pour balm into, pour oil on, qualify, rattle, re-create, realign, rebuild, reconstruct, redesign, reduce, reduce the temperature, refit, reform, regulate by, relax, relieve, remake, remit, renew, reshape, restrain, restrict, restructure, revamp, revive, ring the changes, salve, sap, season, set conditions, set limits, shake, shake up, shift, shift the scene, shuffle the cards, slack, slack off, slack up, slacken, slake, slow down, slur over, smother, sober, sober down, soft-pedal, soften, soften up, soothe, stifle, still, stupe, subdue, subvert, suppress, swerve, tack, take a turn, tame, temper, tone down, tune down, turn, turn aside, turn into, turn the corner, turn the scale, turn the tables, turn the tide, turn upside down, unbend, unbrace, undergo a change, undermine, underplay, unman, unnerve, unstrain, unstrengthen, unstring, varnish, vary, veer, warp, water down, weaken, whitewash, work a change, worsen

Translations

 * Catalan: mitigar
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch: mitigeren
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Polish: złagodzić, zminimalizować, zmniejszyć
 * Portuguese:


 * Russian: смягчать, уменьшать ( строгость, суровость; наказание ); умерять, сдерживать ( жар, пыл ); облегчать ( боль, страдание )
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish: azaltmak, dindirmek, hafifletmek, yumuşatmak, yatıştırmak, tadil etmek

Related terms

 * mitigated
 * mitigating
 * mitigation
 * mitigant

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