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mitigate
What does mitigate mean?
mitigate (verb): to reduce, lessen, or decrease and thereby to make less severe or easier to bear.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use mitigate in a sentence?
- Mitigating circumstances. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
How do you pronounce mitigate?
/ˈmɪtəˌɡeɪt/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Words related to mitigate
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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What does “mitigate” mean?
to love with one's entire heart and soul; regard with deep respect and affection
Not quite: that's what adore means.
to assume or suggest to be true (without proof); to take for granted, to suppose
Not quite: that's what presume means.
to reduce, lessen, or decrease and thereby to make less severe or easier to bear
Right! That's what “mitigate” means.
to part with, separate from, leave off; cast off, cast, let fall, be divested of
Not quite: that's what shed means.
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