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mitigate verb (mitigated, mitigating) 1 law to partially excuse something or make it less serious. 2 to make (pain, anger, etc) less severe. mitigation noun. mitigating adj • mitigating circumstances. mitigator noun.
ETYMOLOGY: 15c: from Latin mitigare to calm or soothe.
mitigate, militate Mitigate is a transitive verb, and is often confused with militate, which is intransitive and has another meaning (to militate against something). Mitigate is correctly used as in the following example:• • That was wrong of me, but it in no way mitigates your own actions. It is incorrectly used in the following example, in which militates is wanted: • This is certainly a problem which mitigates against the widest acceptance of the language |
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