mitigate — İngilizce Sözlük

Fiil

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

   Kullanım

   • geçişli
   • of problems or flaws

   Örnekler

   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...

   Diğer örnekler (5)

   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.

   Kullanım

   • geçişli

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

   Kullanım

   • geçişsiz
   • proscribed

   Eş anlamlı sözcükler

   militate

   Örnekler

   We've mitigated against the chance of flooding.

Sıfat

1. Mitigated, alleviated.

   Kullanım

   • kullanımdan kalkmış

Fiil

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

   Eş anlamlı sözcükler

   extenuatepalliate

   Daha genel terimler

   apologizeapologiseexcuserationalizerationalise

   Örnekler

   The circumstances extenuate the crime

2. to temper

   Daha genel terimler

   decreaselessenminify

   Örnekler

   mitigating circumstances