Definition of mitigate

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Mitigate (v. t.) To make less severe, intense, harsh, rigorous, painful, etc.; to soften; to meliorate; to alleviate; to diminish; to lessen; as, to mitigate heat or cold; to mitigate grief..

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Alleviation :: Alleviation (n.) That which mitigates, or makes more tolerable..
Palliate :: Palliate (a.) Eased; mitigated; alleviated.
Arrant :: Arrant (a.) Notoriously or preeminently bad; thorough or downright, in a bad sense; shameless; unmitigated; as, an arrant rogue or coward..
Immitigable :: Immitigable (a.) Not capable of being mitigated, softened, or appeased..
Relieve :: Relieve (v. t.) To raise or remove, as anything which depresses, weighs down, or crushes; to render less burdensome or afflicting; to alleviate; to abate; to mitigate; to lessen; as, to relieve pain; to relieve the wants of the poor..
Vaccination :: Vaccination (n.) The act, art, or practice of vaccinating, or inoculating with the cowpox, in order to prevent or mitigate an attack of smallpox. Cf. Inoculation..
Slacken :: Slacken (v. t.) To cause to become less intense; to mitigate; to abate; to ease.
Adaunt :: Adaunt (v. t.) To daunt; to subdue; to mitigate.
Mitigative :: Mitigative (a.) Tending to mitigate; alleviating.
Assuage :: Assuage (v. t.) To soften, in a figurative sense; to allay, mitigate, ease, or lessen, as heat, pain, or grief; to appease or pacify, as passion or tumult; to satisfy, as appetite or desire..
Balm :: Balm (v. i.) To anoint with balm, or with anything medicinal. Hence: To soothe; to mitigate..
Soften :: Soften (v. t.) To compose; to mitigate; to assuage.
Allay :: Allay (v. t.) To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate; as, to allay the severity of affliction or the bitterness of adversity..
Mitigator :: Mitigator (n.) One who, or that which, mitigates..
Aslake :: Aslake (v. t. & i.) To mitigate; to moderate; to appease; to abate; to diminish.
Lenitive :: Lenitive (n.) That which softens or mitigates; that which tends to allay passion, excitement, or pain; a palliative..
Balm :: Balm (n.) Anything that heals or that mitigates pain.
Mitigated :: Mitigated (imp. & p. p.) of Mitigat.
Palliate :: Palliate (v. t.) To reduce in violence; to lessen or abate; to mitigate; to ease withhout curing; as, to palliate a disease..
Mitigable :: Mitigable (a.) Admitting of mitigation; that may be mitigated.
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