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Synonyms for Mitigate
ˈmɪt ɪˌgeɪtmit·i·gate

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Wiktionary5.0 / 1 vote

  1. mitigateverb

    Synonyms:
    diminish, pacify, mollify, ease, check, lighten, palliate

    Antonyms:
    intensify, increase, irritate, worsen, incite, aggravate, aggrandize, exacerbate

English Synonyms and Antonyms4.3 / 4 votes

  1. mitigate

    The storm, the fever, the pain abates. Interest declines. Misfortunes may be mitigated, desires moderated, intense anger abated, population decreased, taxes reduced. We abate a nuisance, terminate a controversy, suppress a rebellion. See ALLEVIATE.

    Synonyms:
    abate, decline, decrease, diminish, ebb, lessen, lower, moderate, reduce, subside

    Antonyms:
    aggravate, amplify, continue, develop, enhance, enlarge, extend, foment, increase, magnify, rage, raise, revive

    Preposition:
    Abate in fury; abated by law.

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. extenuate, palliate, mitigateverb

    lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of

    "The circumstances extenuate the crime"

    Synonyms:
    relieve, assuage, palliate, mitigate, alleviate, extenuate

  2. mitigateverb

    make less severe or harsh

    "mitigating circumstances"

    Synonyms:
    palliate, extenuate

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  1. alleviate

    etymologically, to alleviate is to lift a burden toward oneself, and so lighten it for the bearer; to relieve is to lift it back from the bearer, nearly or quite away; to remove is to take it away altogether. alleviate is thus less than relieve; relieve, ordinarily, less than remove. we alleviate, relieve or remove the trouble; we relieve, not alleviate, the sufferer. assuage is, by derivation, to sweeten; mitigate, to make mild; moderate, to bring within measure; abate, to beat down, and so make less. we abate a fever; lessen anxiety; moderate passions or desires; lighten burdens; mitigate or alleviate pain; reduce inflammation;[34] soften, a ssuage, or moderate grief; we lighten or mitigate punishments; we relieve any suffering of body or mind that admits of help, comfort, or remedy. alleviate has been often confused with allay. compare allay.

    Submitted by santoshk.61727 on June 10, 2023  

Dictionary of English Synonymes5.0 / 1 vote

  1. mitigateverb

    Synonyms:
    moderate, alleviate, appease, soothe, soften, mollify, pacify, assuage, quiet, still, calm, quell, allay, abate, temper, attemper, lessen, dull, qualify, blunt

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. mitigateverb

    Synonyms:
    meliorate, alleviate, assuage, temper

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How to use Mitigate in a sentence?

  1. Arun Chandrasekaran:

    Blind trust in these solutions is as dangerous as complete lack of faith in the effectiveness of it, generative AI solutions can also make up facts or present inaccurate information from time to time – and organizations need to be prepared to mitigate this negative impact.

  2. Iran Dempsey:

    Now that there's a negotiated agreement, my job is to ... collaborate with allies in the Gulf and Israel to ... increase our vigilance for the other activities and then to work with them to mitigate the threat that would be posed if [the Iranians] choose to use this revenue for malign purposes.

  3. Kari Stefansson:

    We can, at the push of a button, find encrypted ID of all these carriers, if society would want to use this, they could find these women, they could approach them, and they could mitigate most of this risk.

  4. Han Tan:

    While the resumption of trade talks appears to mitigate any near-term deterioration in US-China tensions, prudent investors will not get carried away, seeing as a meaningful deal still seems a long way off.

  5. Axel Weber:

    The issue is the current policy divergence which I think is driving some of this international volatility. My view is this can not last for long because we've never seen a decoupling, if the U.S. were to stay course the dollar would continue to rise and I think that would recouple the economies. So at some point you're going to see the impact of current policies starting to mitigate.


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