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Mitigate   /mˈɪtəgˌeɪt/   Listen
verb
Mitigate  v. t.  (past & past part. mitigated; pres. part. mitigating)  
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."
Synonyms: To alleviate; assuage; allay. See Alleviate.





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"Mitigate" Quotes from Famous Books



... heavy and incessant that the men could hardly keep the deck, did not greatly mitigate the heat, and Columbus was at last constrained to yield to the importunities of his crew, and to alter his course to the north-west, in order to reach some of the Caribbee islands, where he might refit and be supplied ...
— Peter Parley's Tales About America and Australia • Samuel Griswold Goodrich
... grand a philosophy upon the world in the present state of its intellectual civilization. I ceased to agitate the subject for many years, and allowed myself to be drawn into the political agitations connected with our civil war, to mitigate some of its social ...
— Buchanan's Journal of Man, September 1887 - Volume 1, Number 8 • Various
... Oxford and Smithfield were lit, Knox wrote: "Illuminate the heart of our Sovereign Lady, Queen Mary, with pregnant gifts of the Holy Ghost. . . . Repress thou the pride of those that would rebel. . . . Mitigate the hearts of those ...
— John Knox and the Reformation • Andrew Lang
... need. As a consequence, a moderate amount of labour ought to produce inexhaustible abundance for everyone born of woman; and yet all these glorious achievements have not—as Stuart Mill forcibly says—been able to mitigate one human woe. And, what is more, the ever-increasing facility of producing an abundance has proved a curse to multitudes who lack necessaries because there exists no demand for the many good and useful things which they are able to produce. ...
— Freeland - A Social Anticipation • Theodor Hertzka
... But I didn’t have the combination,” I said, steadying the canoe carefully to mitigate the ...
— The House of a Thousand Candles • Meredith Nicholson


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