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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, 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. Chris Carnabuci:

    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.

  2. Vedprakash Mishra:

    We don’t compromise and mitigate on the requirements.

  3. Jon Ludwigson:

    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.

  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. The MIC Coalition:

    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.


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