mitigate — Englisches Wörterbuch

Verb

1. To reduce, lessen, or decrease and thereby to make less severe or easier to bear.

   Gebrauch

   • transitiv
   • of problems or flaws

   Beispiele

   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...

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   Then they tell us that vaccination will mitigate the disease that it will make it milder.

   Then I discovered the brilliance of the landscape around was mitigated by blue spectacles.

   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.

   This highly-aggressive approach had results, but briefly caused a major uproar in parts of the United States, which was mitigated by the Webster–Ashburton Treaty in 1842, which formalised the U.S. Navy's contribution to the antislavery efforts.

   But then crashworthiness is not about preventing accidents, but about mitigating their consequences.

2. To downplay.

   Gebrauch

   • transitiv

3. To give force or effect toward preventing a problem.

   Gebrauch

   • intransitiv
   • proscribed

   Synonyme

   militate

   Beispiele

   We've mitigated against the chance of flooding.

Adjektiv

1. Mitigated, alleviated.

   Gebrauch

   • außer Gebrauch

Verb

1. lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of

   Synonyme

   extenuatepalliate

   Oberbegriffe

   apologizeapologiseexcuserationalizerationalise

   Beispiele

   The circumstances extenuate the crime

2. to temper

   Oberbegriffe

   decreaselessenminify

   Beispiele

   mitigating circumstances