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third-person singular simple present mitigates, present participle mitigating, simple past and past participle mitigated
(transitive, of problems or flaws) To reduce, lessen, or decrease and thereby to make less severe or easier to bear. quotations examples
Measures are pursuing to prevent or mitigate the usual consequences of such outrages, and with the hope of their succeeding at least to avert general hostility.
1795, George Washington, Seventh State of the Union Address
But in yielding to it the retaliation has been mitigated as much as possible, both in its extent and in its character...
1813, James Madison, Fifth State of the Union Address
Then they tell us that vaccination will mitigate the disease that it will make it milder.
1896, Walter Hadwen, The Case Against Vaccination
Then I discovered the brilliance of the landscape around was mitigated by blue spectacles.
1900 December – 1901 August, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter 7, in The First Men in the Moon, London: George Newnes, […], published 1901
The plague had not been kind to him, yet had left him this small furry thing to mitigate his sorrow; and when one is very young, one can find great relief in the lively antics of a black kitten.
1920, H. P. Lovecraft, The Cats of Ulthar
But then crashworthiness is not about preventing accidents, but about mitigating their consequences.
2021 October 6, Greg Morse, “A need for speed and the drive for 125”, in RAIL, number 941, page 53
(transitive) To downplay. examples