mitigate
verbEtymology
From Middle English mitigaten (“to relieve pain, soothe; (swelling) to abate; (hemorrhoids) to relieve; (the mind) to placate, appease; to end, check; to stop, cease”), from mitigat(e) (“mitigated, alleviated, relived”, also used as the past participle of mitigaten) + -en (verb-forming suffix), borrowed from Latin mītigātus, the perfect passive participle of mītigō (“to make soft, ripe; to tame, pacify”), from mītis (“gentle, mild, ripe”) + -igō (“to do, make”), of uncertain origin, but perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁y- (“mild, soft”).
Definitions
To reduce, lessen, or decrease and thereby to make less severe or easier to bear.
- 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.
- But in yielding to it the retaliation has been mitigated as much as possible, both in its extent and in its character...
- Then they tell us that vaccination will mitigate the disease that it will make it milder.
To downplay.
To give force or effect toward preventing a problem.
- We've mitigated against the chance of flooding.
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Mitigated, alleviated.
The neighborhood
- antonymaggrandizeantonym(s) of “to reduce or lessen”
- antonymaggravateantonym(s) of “to reduce or lessen”
- antonymexacerbateantonym(s) of “to reduce or lessen”
- antonyminciteantonym(s) of “to reduce or lessen”
- antonymincreaseantonym(s) of “to reduce or lessen”
- antonymintensifyantonym(s) of “to reduce or lessen”
- antonymirritateantonym(s) of “to reduce or lessen”
- antonymworsenantonym(s) of “to reduce or lessen”
- neighbormitigable
- neighbormitigant
- neighbormitigated
- neighbormitigating
- neighbormitigation
- neighbormitigatory
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at mitigate. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at mitigate. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at mitigate
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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