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Synonyms for mitigate
ˈmɪt ɪˌgeɪtmit·i·gate
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
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, subsideAntonyms:
aggravate, amplify, continue, develop, enhance, enlarge, extend, foment, increase, magnify, rage, raise, revivePreposition:
Abate in fury; abated by law.
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Editors Contribution
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 Synonymes
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "mitigate":
alleviate, mitigating, reduce, attenuate, lessen, ease, alleviation, mitigation, relieve, minimize, mitigated, soften, cushion, attenuation, allay, defuse, ameliorate, limit, diminish, alleviating, lighten, assuage, reducing, offset, easing, dampen
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#272 | check | |
#1104 | lower | |
#2036 | reduce | |
#2110 | limit | |
#4576 | reducing | |
#4819 | ease | |
#4933 | decrease | |
#5179 | offset | |
#5420 | moderate | |
#5615 | decline | |
#7843 | minimize | |
#11106 | mitigation | |
#12446 | cushion | |
#13778 | relieve | |
#18285 | mitigate | |
#19755 | alleviate | |
#21475 | diminish | |
#22578 | attenuation | |
#25048 | lessen | |
#25429 | mitigating | |
#29589 | easing | |
#30385 | soften | |
#30671 | ebb | |
#31814 | lighten | |
#35577 | alleviation | |
#37418 | mitigated | |
#40873 | abate | |
#47558 | alleviating | |
#51445 | dampen | |
#55573 | subside | |
#59404 | defuse | |
#60127 | ameliorate | |
#66494 | allay | |
#75186 | attenuate | |
#89527 | assuage | |
#89650 | pacify | |
#159338 | mollify | |
#241864 | palliate | |
#307708 | extenuate |
How to use mitigate in a sentence?
The painting will help mitigate damage from the weather or manmade damage, it gives it a nice edge. Last night, when it was dark out, I saw what it looked like under artificial light for the first time : I was floored by the way it stood out.
We don’t compromise and mitigate on the requirements.
Some potential adversaries have the means and intentions of holding our space-based capabilities at risk, as a result, we face important questions about how to mitigate the risks to current space systems, recapitalize our existing capabilities and potentially have new ones.
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.
The decrees have helped mitigate anti-competitive behavior, while also ensuring songwriters and creators get paid when their music is played in the millions of American venues, the modification, elimination or even the possible sunset of the decrees at the present time would lead to chaos for the entire marketplace.
Translations for mitigate
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- تخفيفArabic
- mitigarCatalan, Valencian
- snížit, zmírnitCzech
- mildernGerman
- mitigarSpanish
- کاهشPersian
- lieventää, helpottaaFinnish
- atténuer, réduireFrench
- कम करनाHindi
- csökkentHungarian
- למתןHebrew
- 和らげるJapanese
- 완화시키다Korean
- lindre, avbøte, formildeNorwegian
- mitigeren, verzachtenDutch
- minskeNorwegian
- zminimalizować, zmniejszyć, złagodzićPolish
- mitigarPortuguese
- mildra, lindraSwedish
- บรรเทาThai
- yumuşatmak, hafifletmek, tadil etmek, dindirmek, yatıştırmak, azaltmakTurkish
- làm dịu bớtVietnamese
- 减轻Chinese
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