Definition of mitigate in English:

mitigate

verb ˈmɪtɪɡeɪtˈmɪdəˌɡeɪt

[with object]

1Make (something bad) less severe, serious, or painful.
使温和；使缓和；减轻（痛苦）
drainage schemes have helped to mitigate this problem
排污系统已经使问题得到缓和。
Example sentencesExamples
- It follows that vulnerability to occasional, but severe, financial crises could be mitigated if countries were to abolish their own currencies.
- To some degree, the general improvement of the housing stock that has taken place in recent years has mitigated some of the worst features of physical deprivation.
- The dehumanizing effects of looking for work and going to temp agencies, however, have somewhat mitigated the boost.
- It seems to have become accepted that poverty will always exist - the aim of policy is merely to mitigate its worst effects.
- One is to develop a serious plan for mitigating extreme poverty.
- If you have serious credit card debts, the best way to mitigate the bill is to switch to zero interest plastic.
- But the issue won't be mitigated until conservatives make a serious effort to get into academics and make their arguments heard.
- Every case of slavery, however lenient its inflictions and mitigated its atrocities, indicates an oppressor, the oppressed, and oppression.
- We should welcome an opportunity to mitigate the misery of a lingering death of a person who longs to die.
- Proper planning can significantly mitigate the deemed interest benefit income or debt income inclusion.
- In fact, there is alarming evidence that a significant number of people actually believe that where drinking is a factor in rape, it mitigates the offence itself.
- The uniting factor is that withdrawal of specific glutens mitigates symptoms in a significant number of individuals with these gluten-associated diseases.
- To say that statistics mitigate murder is obviously contemptible.
- As it stands, this preposterously long-term deal only mitigates the first year of that possibility.
- Parliament, however, has sought to mitigate the worst effects of strict liability by including defences in some statutes.
- So government will have to take some sort of measures to mitigate this.
- Politics is meant to mitigate the misery to which our inborn condition consigns us, not add to it.
- One might believe that the many inconveniences residents encountered were mitigated by the festive improvements in the city's appearance.
- We have, long term, a great deal to gain from mitigating the effects of global warming.
- By pooling resources, the quality of art, writing and casting could be enhanced, mitigating some of the risk for an investor.
Synonyms
alleviate, reduce, diminish, lessen, weaken, lighten, attenuate, take the edge off, allay, ease, assuage, palliate, cushion, damp, deaden, dull, appease, soothe, relieve, help, soften, temper, still, quell, quieten, quiet, tone down, blunt, dilute, moderate, modify, abate, lull, pacify, placate, mollify, sweeten, tranquillize, remit, extenuate, excuse, commute
1. 1.1 Lessen the gravity of (an offence or mistake)
  减轻（罪行或过错）
  there had been a provocation that mitigated the offence to a degree
  Example sentencesExamples
  These are mitigating circumstances for commuting the death sentence.
  Yet if there were mitigating circumstances, it seems incredible that he would not have used them to defend himself at the hearing.
  If there turns out to be mitigating circumstances, they would come out in the court case.
  Clearly, there can be mitigating circumstances as the Panel recognises.
  Even manslaughter could be covered by a fine if there were mitigating circumstances, or if the victim were a slave.
  Now it hardly needs adding that mitigating circumstances exist for the dearth of success on the ski slopes.
  We could get bogged down in legal argument, factor in mitigating circumstances and take previous behaviour into consideration.
  And he may well have had mitigating circumstances in making his decision.
  Whilst not going into what it was here, we were both pleading guilty with mitigating circumstances.
  There were mitigating circumstances for the error which I shall not go into here.
  Not his finest hour in football but there were mitigating circumstances.
  Judges and Magistrates have discretion and accept mitigating circumstances and the limits of the law.
  However, while it looks like the gaffe of the decade, there are mitigating circumstances.
  Unless there are mitigating circumstances, that's as much as an athlete is permitted.
  Therefore, there are not mitigating circumstances to suggest that he has revealed other matters as a result of that meeting.
  Another major point in the argument against capital punishment is called mitigating circumstances.
  He'll almost certainly get a ban but we are looking at mitigating circumstances.
  You have to take into account a lot of ancillary factors and mitigating circumstances.
  Oh, of course there are mitigating circumstances, such as being too young, or too ill to be in command of your existence.
  Would the fact that the ladies were correcting mistakes count as mitigating circumstances?
  Synonyms
  extenuating, exonerative, justificatory, justifying, vindicatory, vindicating, exculpatory, palliative, qualifying, moderating, modifying, tempering, lessening

Usage

The verbs mitigate and militate do not have the same meaning, although the similarity of the forms leads many people to confuse them. Mitigate means ‘make (something bad) less severe’, as in drainage schemes have helped to mitigate this problem, while militate is nearly always used in constructions with against to mean ‘be a powerful factor in preventing’, as in these disagreements will militate against the two communities coming together

Derivatives

mitigable

adjective

This is mitigable via proper sequencing of restoration projects and the Control Program.
Example sentencesExamples
- The project would also have a significant and mitigable impact to the black-crowned night heron rookery because of the removal of ornamental trees on the surrounding properties.
- However a coalition of peace and environmental groups is not convinced that potential impacts from the incinerator are mitigable.
- Routine infrastructure projects such as highway construction are said to have predictable and mitigable environmental effects.
- All impacts were found to be mitigable to levels of insignificance.

mitigative

adjective

mitigator

noun ˈmɪtɪɡeɪtəˈmɪdəˌɡeɪdər

1A person or thing that makes something bad less severe, serious, or painful.
we're holding bonds as a mitigator of risk
1. 1.1 Something that lessens the gravity of an offence or mistake.
  减轻（罪行或过错）
Example sentencesExamples
- If I can stick it out it will be a good mitigator of my perfectionism too.
- The groom is a loss mitigator at a mortgage company.
- Standing is a partial mitigator and forsaking tasks altogether is another.
- the law lists a dozen mitigators, such as mental problems the defendant was suffering

mitigatory

adjective ˈmɪtɪɡeɪtəriˈmɪdəɡəˌtɔri

Although he is careful to add a mitigatory rider.
Example sentencesExamples
- If His Honour is rejecting any mitigatory effect of the plea in isolation it would be difficult, in my respectful opinion, to fit it into one or more of those categories in the absence of contrition.
- In doing so, and without mitigatory measures, they encourage forest conversion.
- If one looks at the common law mitigatory factors such as youth, mental illness and things of that nature, they can significantly reduce a sentence.
- However, norms governing the conduct of war, as distinct from those governing resort to armed force, are by their nature no more than mitigatory in effect.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin mitigat- 'softened, alleviated', from the verb mitigare, from mitis 'mild'.

Rhymes

litigate

Definition of mitigate in US English:

mitigate

verbˈmidəˌɡātˈmɪdəˌɡeɪt

[with object]

1Make less severe, serious, or painful.
使温和；使缓和；减轻（痛苦）
he wanted to mitigate misery in the world
Example sentencesExamples
- We have, long term, a great deal to gain from mitigating the effects of global warming.
- Proper planning can significantly mitigate the deemed interest benefit income or debt income inclusion.
- To some degree, the general improvement of the housing stock that has taken place in recent years has mitigated some of the worst features of physical deprivation.
- So government will have to take some sort of measures to mitigate this.
- By pooling resources, the quality of art, writing and casting could be enhanced, mitigating some of the risk for an investor.
- Politics is meant to mitigate the misery to which our inborn condition consigns us, not add to it.
- If you have serious credit card debts, the best way to mitigate the bill is to switch to zero interest plastic.
- One might believe that the many inconveniences residents encountered were mitigated by the festive improvements in the city's appearance.
- We should welcome an opportunity to mitigate the misery of a lingering death of a person who longs to die.
- Parliament, however, has sought to mitigate the worst effects of strict liability by including defences in some statutes.
- In fact, there is alarming evidence that a significant number of people actually believe that where drinking is a factor in rape, it mitigates the offence itself.
- It follows that vulnerability to occasional, but severe, financial crises could be mitigated if countries were to abolish their own currencies.
- One is to develop a serious plan for mitigating extreme poverty.
- Every case of slavery, however lenient its inflictions and mitigated its atrocities, indicates an oppressor, the oppressed, and oppression.
- But the issue won't be mitigated until conservatives make a serious effort to get into academics and make their arguments heard.
- The dehumanizing effects of looking for work and going to temp agencies, however, have somewhat mitigated the boost.
- As it stands, this preposterously long-term deal only mitigates the first year of that possibility.
- To say that statistics mitigate murder is obviously contemptible.
- The uniting factor is that withdrawal of specific glutens mitigates symptoms in a significant number of individuals with these gluten-associated diseases.
- It seems to have become accepted that poverty will always exist - the aim of policy is merely to mitigate its worst effects.
Synonyms
alleviate, reduce, diminish, lessen, weaken, lighten, attenuate, take the edge off, allay, ease, assuage, palliate, cushion, damp, deaden, dull, appease, soothe, relieve, help, soften, temper, still, quell, quieten, quiet, tone down, blunt, dilute, moderate, modify, abate, lull, pacify, placate, mollify, sweeten, tranquillize, remit, extenuate, excuse, commute
1. 1.1 Lessen the gravity of (an offense or mistake)
  减轻（罪行或过错）
  there had been a provocation that mitigated the offense to a degree
  Example sentencesExamples
  However, while it looks like the gaffe of the decade, there are mitigating circumstances.
  These are mitigating circumstances for commuting the death sentence.
  There were mitigating circumstances for the error which I shall not go into here.
  Unless there are mitigating circumstances, that's as much as an athlete is permitted.
  We could get bogged down in legal argument, factor in mitigating circumstances and take previous behaviour into consideration.
  And he may well have had mitigating circumstances in making his decision.
  Yet if there were mitigating circumstances, it seems incredible that he would not have used them to defend himself at the hearing.
  You have to take into account a lot of ancillary factors and mitigating circumstances.
  Judges and Magistrates have discretion and accept mitigating circumstances and the limits of the law.
  Therefore, there are not mitigating circumstances to suggest that he has revealed other matters as a result of that meeting.
  Not his finest hour in football but there were mitigating circumstances.
  Another major point in the argument against capital punishment is called mitigating circumstances.
  Clearly, there can be mitigating circumstances as the Panel recognises.
  He'll almost certainly get a ban but we are looking at mitigating circumstances.
  Even manslaughter could be covered by a fine if there were mitigating circumstances, or if the victim were a slave.
  Whilst not going into what it was here, we were both pleading guilty with mitigating circumstances.
  Would the fact that the ladies were correcting mistakes count as mitigating circumstances?
  Now it hardly needs adding that mitigating circumstances exist for the dearth of success on the ski slopes.
  Oh, of course there are mitigating circumstances, such as being too young, or too ill to be in command of your existence.
  If there turns out to be mitigating circumstances, they would come out in the court case.
  Synonyms
  extenuating, exonerative, justificatory, justifying, vindicatory, vindicating, exculpatory, palliative, qualifying, moderating, modifying, tempering, lessening

Usage

The verbs mitigate and militate have a similarity in form but are quite different in meaning. Mitigate means ‘make (something bad) less severe,’ (he wanted to mitigate misery in the world), while militate is nearly always used in constructions with against to mean ‘be a powerful factor in preventing’ (laws that militate against personal freedoms)

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin mitigat- ‘softened, alleviated’, from the verb mitigare, from mitis ‘mild’.

单词	mitigate
释义	Definition of mitigate in English: mitigate verb ˈmɪtɪɡeɪtˈmɪdəˌɡeɪt [with object] 1Make (something bad) less severe, serious, or painful. 使温和；使缓和；减轻（痛苦） drainage schemes have helped to mitigate this problem 排污系统已经使问题得到缓和。 Example sentencesExamples It follows that vulnerability to occasional, but severe, financial crises could be mitigated if countries were to abolish their own currencies. To some degree, the general improvement of the housing stock that has taken place in recent years has mitigated some of the worst features of physical deprivation. The dehumanizing effects of looking for work and going to temp agencies, however, have somewhat mitigated the boost. It seems to have become accepted that poverty will always exist - the aim of policy is merely to mitigate its worst effects. One is to develop a serious plan for mitigating extreme poverty. If you have serious credit card debts, the best way to mitigate the bill is to switch to zero interest plastic. But the issue won't be mitigated until conservatives make a serious effort to get into academics and make their arguments heard. Every case of slavery, however lenient its inflictions and mitigated its atrocities, indicates an oppressor, the oppressed, and oppression. We should welcome an opportunity to mitigate the misery of a lingering death of a person who longs to die. Proper planning can significantly mitigate the deemed interest benefit income or debt income inclusion. In fact, there is alarming evidence that a significant number of people actually believe that where drinking is a factor in rape, it mitigates the offence itself. The uniting factor is that withdrawal of specific glutens mitigates symptoms in a significant number of individuals with these gluten-associated diseases. To say that statistics mitigate murder is obviously contemptible. As it stands, this preposterously long-term deal only mitigates the first year of that possibility. Parliament, however, has sought to mitigate the worst effects of strict liability by including defences in some statutes. So government will have to take some sort of measures to mitigate this. Politics is meant to mitigate the misery to which our inborn condition consigns us, not add to it. One might believe that the many inconveniences residents encountered were mitigated by the festive improvements in the city's appearance. We have, long term, a great deal to gain from mitigating the effects of global warming. By pooling resources, the quality of art, writing and casting could be enhanced, mitigating some of the risk for an investor. Synonyms alleviate, reduce, diminish, lessen, weaken, lighten, attenuate, take the edge off, allay, ease, assuage, palliate, cushion, damp, deaden, dull, appease, soothe, relieve, help, soften, temper, still, quell, quieten, quiet, tone down, blunt, dilute, moderate, modify, abate, lull, pacify, placate, mollify, sweeten, tranquillize, remit, extenuate, excuse, commute 1.1 Lessen the gravity of (an offence or mistake) 减轻（罪行或过错） there had been a provocation that mitigated the offence to a degree Example sentencesExamples These are mitigating circumstances for commuting the death sentence. Yet if there were mitigating circumstances, it seems incredible that he would not have used them to defend himself at the hearing. If there turns out to be mitigating circumstances, they would come out in the court case. Clearly, there can be mitigating circumstances as the Panel recognises. Even manslaughter could be covered by a fine if there were mitigating circumstances, or if the victim were a slave. Now it hardly needs adding that mitigating circumstances exist for the dearth of success on the ski slopes. We could get bogged down in legal argument, factor in mitigating circumstances and take previous behaviour into consideration. And he may well have had mitigating circumstances in making his decision. Whilst not going into what it was here, we were both pleading guilty with mitigating circumstances. There were mitigating circumstances for the error which I shall not go into here. Not his finest hour in football but there were mitigating circumstances. Judges and Magistrates have discretion and accept mitigating circumstances and the limits of the law. However, while it looks like the gaffe of the decade, there are mitigating circumstances. Unless there are mitigating circumstances, that's as much as an athlete is permitted. Therefore, there are not mitigating circumstances to suggest that he has revealed other matters as a result of that meeting. Another major point in the argument against capital punishment is called mitigating circumstances. He'll almost certainly get a ban but we are looking at mitigating circumstances. You have to take into account a lot of ancillary factors and mitigating circumstances. Oh, of course there are mitigating circumstances, such as being too young, or too ill to be in command of your existence. Would the fact that the ladies were correcting mistakes count as mitigating circumstances? Synonyms extenuating, exonerative, justificatory, justifying, vindicatory, vindicating, exculpatory, palliative, qualifying, moderating, modifying, tempering, lessening Usage The verbs mitigate and militate do not have the same meaning, although the similarity of the forms leads many people to confuse them. Mitigate means ‘make (something bad) less severe’, as in drainage schemes have helped to mitigate this problem, while militate is nearly always used in constructions with against to mean ‘be a powerful factor in preventing’, as in these disagreements will militate against the two communities coming together Derivatives mitigable adjective This is mitigable via proper sequencing of restoration projects and the Control Program. Example sentencesExamples The project would also have a significant and mitigable impact to the black-crowned night heron rookery because of the removal of ornamental trees on the surrounding properties. However a coalition of peace and environmental groups is not convinced that potential impacts from the incinerator are mitigable. Routine infrastructure projects such as highway construction are said to have predictable and mitigable environmental effects. All impacts were found to be mitigable to levels of insignificance. mitigative adjective mitigator noun ˈmɪtɪɡeɪtəˈmɪdəˌɡeɪdər 1A person or thing that makes something bad less severe, serious, or painful. we're holding bonds as a mitigator of risk 1.1 Something that lessens the gravity of an offence or mistake. 减轻（罪行或过错） Example sentencesExamples If I can stick it out it will be a good mitigator of my perfectionism too. The groom is a loss mitigator at a mortgage company. Standing is a partial mitigator and forsaking tasks altogether is another. the law lists a dozen mitigators, such as mental problems the defendant was suffering mitigatory adjective ˈmɪtɪɡeɪtəriˈmɪdəɡəˌtɔri Although he is careful to add a mitigatory rider. Example sentencesExamples If His Honour is rejecting any mitigatory effect of the plea in isolation it would be difficult, in my respectful opinion, to fit it into one or more of those categories in the absence of contrition. In doing so, and without mitigatory measures, they encourage forest conversion. If one looks at the common law mitigatory factors such as youth, mental illness and things of that nature, they can significantly reduce a sentence. However, norms governing the conduct of war, as distinct from those governing resort to armed force, are by their nature no more than mitigatory in effect. Origin Late Middle English: from Latin mitigat- 'softened, alleviated', from the verb mitigare, from mitis 'mild'. Rhymes litigate Definition of mitigate in US English: mitigate verbˈmidəˌɡātˈmɪdəˌɡeɪt [with object] 1Make less severe, serious, or painful. 使温和；使缓和；减轻（痛苦） he wanted to mitigate misery in the world Example sentencesExamples We have, long term, a great deal to gain from mitigating the effects of global warming. Proper planning can significantly mitigate the deemed interest benefit income or debt income inclusion. To some degree, the general improvement of the housing stock that has taken place in recent years has mitigated some of the worst features of physical deprivation. So government will have to take some sort of measures to mitigate this. By pooling resources, the quality of art, writing and casting could be enhanced, mitigating some of the risk for an investor. Politics is meant to mitigate the misery to which our inborn condition consigns us, not add to it. If you have serious credit card debts, the best way to mitigate the bill is to switch to zero interest plastic. One might believe that the many inconveniences residents encountered were mitigated by the festive improvements in the city's appearance. We should welcome an opportunity to mitigate the misery of a lingering death of a person who longs to die. Parliament, however, has sought to mitigate the worst effects of strict liability by including defences in some statutes. In fact, there is alarming evidence that a significant number of people actually believe that where drinking is a factor in rape, it mitigates the offence itself. It follows that vulnerability to occasional, but severe, financial crises could be mitigated if countries were to abolish their own currencies. One is to develop a serious plan for mitigating extreme poverty. Every case of slavery, however lenient its inflictions and mitigated its atrocities, indicates an oppressor, the oppressed, and oppression. But the issue won't be mitigated until conservatives make a serious effort to get into academics and make their arguments heard. The dehumanizing effects of looking for work and going to temp agencies, however, have somewhat mitigated the boost. As it stands, this preposterously long-term deal only mitigates the first year of that possibility. To say that statistics mitigate murder is obviously contemptible. The uniting factor is that withdrawal of specific glutens mitigates symptoms in a significant number of individuals with these gluten-associated diseases. It seems to have become accepted that poverty will always exist - the aim of policy is merely to mitigate its worst effects. Synonyms alleviate, reduce, diminish, lessen, weaken, lighten, attenuate, take the edge off, allay, ease, assuage, palliate, cushion, damp, deaden, dull, appease, soothe, relieve, help, soften, temper, still, quell, quieten, quiet, tone down, blunt, dilute, moderate, modify, abate, lull, pacify, placate, mollify, sweeten, tranquillize, remit, extenuate, excuse, commute 1.1 Lessen the gravity of (an offense or mistake) 减轻（罪行或过错） there had been a provocation that mitigated the offense to a degree Example sentencesExamples However, while it looks like the gaffe of the decade, there are mitigating circumstances. These are mitigating circumstances for commuting the death sentence. There were mitigating circumstances for the error which I shall not go into here. Unless there are mitigating circumstances, that's as much as an athlete is permitted. We could get bogged down in legal argument, factor in mitigating circumstances and take previous behaviour into consideration. And he may well have had mitigating circumstances in making his decision. Yet if there were mitigating circumstances, it seems incredible that he would not have used them to defend himself at the hearing. You have to take into account a lot of ancillary factors and mitigating circumstances. Judges and Magistrates have discretion and accept mitigating circumstances and the limits of the law. Therefore, there are not mitigating circumstances to suggest that he has revealed other matters as a result of that meeting. Not his finest hour in football but there were mitigating circumstances. Another major point in the argument against capital punishment is called mitigating circumstances. Clearly, there can be mitigating circumstances as the Panel recognises. He'll almost certainly get a ban but we are looking at mitigating circumstances. Even manslaughter could be covered by a fine if there were mitigating circumstances, or if the victim were a slave. Whilst not going into what it was here, we were both pleading guilty with mitigating circumstances. Would the fact that the ladies were correcting mistakes count as mitigating circumstances? Now it hardly needs adding that mitigating circumstances exist for the dearth of success on the ski slopes. Oh, of course there are mitigating circumstances, such as being too young, or too ill to be in command of your existence. If there turns out to be mitigating circumstances, they would come out in the court case. Synonyms extenuating, exonerative, justificatory, justifying, vindicatory, vindicating, exculpatory, palliative, qualifying, moderating, modifying, tempering, lessening Usage The verbs mitigate and militate have a similarity in form but are quite different in meaning. Mitigate means ‘make (something bad) less severe,’ (he wanted to mitigate misery in the world), while militate is nearly always used in constructions with against to mean ‘be a powerful factor in preventing’ (laws that militate against personal freedoms) Origin Late Middle English: from Latin mitigat- ‘softened, alleviated’, from the verb mitigare, from mitis ‘mild’.
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