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mitigate::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | extenuate, palliate |
| Type of | rationalise, rationalize, excuse, apologize, apologise |
| Derivation | mitigatory, mitigation, mitigative |
Examples of mitigate
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A number of interesting businesses are emerging to help mitigate these problems.
From the forbes.com
We will also need people to mitigate our unwavering addiction to shiny new toys.
From the newscientist.com
Conducts complex security architecture analysis to evaluate and mitigate issues.
From the jobview.monster.com
Sarewitz adds that tools to mitigate the effects of these disasters are at hand.
From the sciencedaily.com
In an acutely risk-averse environment, try-buys mitigate the risk on both sides.
From the businessweek.com
Both worked to have the controversial Wal-Mart mitigate its impact on neighbors.
From the dailyherald.com
Try as I might to mitigate the tasteless affair with contorted text, I couldn't.
From the toledoblade.com
There is no hopeful, movie-of-the-week resolution, nothing to mitigate the pain.
From the thenewstribune.com
Card companies are trying to mitigate that risk by forcing people to spend less.
From the theatlantic.com
- Extenuate: lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of; "The circumstances extenuate the crime"
- Make less severe or harsh; "mitigating circumstances"
- (mitigated) made less severe or intense; "he gladly accepted the mitigated penalty"
- (mitigation) extenuation: to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious
- (mitigation) extenuation: a partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances
- (mitigation) moderation: the action of lessening in severity or intensity; "the object being control or moderation of economic depressions"
- (Mitigation (legal)) Mitigation in law is the idea that a party who has suffered loss (from a tort or breach of contract) has to take reasonable action to minimize the amount of the loss suffered. As stated by the Canadian Federal Court of Appeal in Redpath Industries Ltd. v. ...
- To reduce, lessen, or decrease
- (mitigated) lessened, reduced, diminished
