Definition of mitigate

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Mitigate (v. t.) To make mild and accessible; to mollify; -- applied to persons.

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Mitigable :: Mitigable (a.) Admitting of mitigation; that may be mitigated.
Arrant :: Arrant (a.) Notoriously or preeminently bad; thorough or downright, in a bad sense; shameless; unmitigated; as, an arrant rogue or coward..
Slacken :: Slacken (v. t.) To cause to become less intense; to mitigate; to abate; to ease.
Paregoric :: Paregoric (n.) A medicine that mitigates pain; an anodyne; specifically, camphorated tincture of opium; -- called also paregoric elexir..
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..
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..
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..
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..
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..
Adaunt :: Adaunt (v. t.) To daunt; to subdue; to mitigate.
Mitigate :: Mitigate (v. t.) To make mild and accessible; to mollify; -- applied to persons.
Lenify :: Lenify (v. t.) To assuage; to soften; to mitigate; to alleviate.
Lenitive :: Lenitive (n.) That which softens or mitigates; that which tends to allay passion, excitement, or pain; a palliative..
Regular :: Regular (a.) Thorough; complete; unmitigated; as, a regular humbug..
Palliative :: Palliative (a.) Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate.
Balm :: Balm (v. i.) To anoint with balm, or with anything medicinal. Hence: To soothe; to mitigate..
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..
Mitigated :: Mitigated (imp. & p. p.) of Mitigat.
Balm :: Balm (n.) Anything that heals or that mitigates pain.
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