[ US /ˈmɪtəˌɡeɪt/ ]
[ UK /mˈɪtɪɡˌe‍ɪt/ ]
VERB
  1. make less severe or harsh
    mitigating circumstances
  2. lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of
    The circumstances extenuate the crime
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How To Use mitigate In A Sentence

  • For all the abuse, there are moments of unmitigated delight as well.
  • Measures need to be taken to mitigate the environmental effects of burning more coal.
  • So, if I show a single qualification or exception, then "unmitigated" is incorrect. Sound Politics: A Trifle Overstated, Professor McKay
  • So great is the danger of such injurious results, few careful practitioners have cared to adopt the heroic "antipyretic" medication recommended by experimenters, preferring to allow their patients to burn with fever, mitigated only by such simple means as are commonly employed by nurses, than to require them to combat the poisonous influences of a drug in addition to the morbid element of the disease. Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884
  • Second, to what extent are the impediments determined by structural factors beyond the control of the region, and to what extent are they determined by endogenous factors that can be mitigated by regional policy?
  • The caveat emptor doctrine has been mitigated by the implied terms as to quality.
  • Now, she would gladly exchange unmitigated boredom for the quivering nerves that alerted her to every shadow. PRETTY MAIDS ALL IN A ROW
  • Or did he know that all these things were in store, and only hope to do his best to mitigate their effects when they arrived? DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
  • An incredible horror-barely mitigated by the gallantry award and hero's status he had earned by staking his own life.
  • The use of nonexplosive, non-lethal barrier devices will mitigate the post-deployment hazards associated with traditional mines.
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