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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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..
Palliative :: Palliative (a.) Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate.
Mitigate :: Mitigate (v. t.) To make mild and accessible; to mollify; -- applied to persons.
Mitigative :: Mitigative (a.) Tending to mitigate; alleviating.
Balm :: Balm (v. i.) To anoint with balm, or with anything medicinal. Hence: To soothe; to mitigate..
Ease :: Ease (n.) To render less painful or oppressive; to mitigate; to alleviate.
Soften :: Soften (v. t.) To compose; to mitigate; to assuage.
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..
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..
Mitigator :: Mitigator (n.) One who, or that which, mitigates..
Febrifuge :: Febrifuge (n.) A medicine serving to mitigate or remove fever.
Balm :: Balm (n.) Anything that heals or that mitigates pain.
Mitigatory :: Mitigatory (a.) Tending to mitigate or alleviate; mitigative.
Alleviation :: Alleviation (n.) That which mitigates, or makes more tolerable..
Palliate :: Palliate (v. t.) To reduce in violence; to lessen or abate; to mitigate; to ease withhout curing; as, to palliate a disease..
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..
Mitigate :: 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..
Mitigant :: Mitigant (a.) Tending to mitigate; mitigating; lentitive.
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