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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Mitigated :: Mitigated (imp. & p. p.) of Mitigat.
Febrifuge :: Febrifuge (n.) A medicine serving to mitigate or remove fever.
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..
Alleviation :: Alleviation (n.) That which mitigates, or makes more tolerable..
Palliative :: Palliative (a.) Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate.
Immitigable :: Immitigable (a.) Not capable of being mitigated, softened, or appeased..
Adaunt :: Adaunt (v. t.) To daunt; to subdue; to mitigate.
Ease :: Ease (n.) To render less painful or oppressive; to mitigate; to alleviate.
Palliate :: Palliate (a.) Eased; mitigated; alleviated.
Lenify :: Lenify (v. t.) To assuage; to soften; to mitigate; to alleviate.
Mitigation :: Mitigation (n.) The act of mitigating, or the state of being mitigated; abatement or diminution of anything painful, harsh, severe, afflictive, or calamitous; as, the mitigation of pain, grief, rigor, severity, punishment, or penalty..
Palliate :: Palliate (v. t.) To reduce in violence; to lessen or abate; to mitigate; to ease withhout curing; as, to palliate a disease..
Alleviate :: Alleviate (v. t.) To lighten or lessen (physical or mental troubles); to mitigate, or make easier to be endured; as, to alleviate sorrow, pain, care, etc. ; -- opposed to aggravate..
Arrant :: Arrant (a.) Notoriously or preeminently bad; thorough or downright, in a bad sense; shameless; unmitigated; as, an arrant rogue or coward..
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..
Mitigable :: Mitigable (a.) Admitting of mitigation; that may be mitigated.
Balm :: Balm (n.) Anything that heals or that mitigates pain.
Allay :: Allay (v. t.) To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate; as, to allay the severity of affliction or the bitterness of adversity..
Mitigatory :: Mitigatory (a.) Tending to mitigate or alleviate; mitigative.
Lenitive :: Lenitive (n.) That which softens or mitigates; that which tends to allay passion, excitement, or pain; a palliative..
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