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Meaning mitigate meaning

What does mitigate mean?

mitigate

— verb (= extenuate) lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of The circumstances extenuate the crime — verb make less severe or harsh mitigating circumstances

Synonyms mitigate synonyms

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mitigate English » English

relieve alleviate palliate ease moderate assuage allay lessen extenuate reduce temper soothe abate remit relax pacify mollify diminish soften attenuate appease shorten lower lighten improve facilitate decrease cut curtail ameliorate weaken trim tranquillize tone down subdue smooth out slacken shrink season scale down retrench restrain remove remission remedy quiet quench quell qualify put down

Topics mitigate topics

What do people use mitigate to talk about?
Social behavior Prosperity, trouble Respond to someone in trouble

Relief
States Quantity More

Decrease

Conjugation mitigate conjugation

How do you conjugate mitigate?

mitigate · verb

Examples mitigate examples

How do I use mitigate in a sentence?

Movie subtitles

To mitigate the scorn he gives his uncle, he prettily and aptly taunts himself.
Due to the weakness character or. by a false evidence, he may try to mitigate his fate.
TO MITIGATE YOUR SITUATION AND ENHANCE.
We can mitigate the intent. We don't want a trial.
It tends to mitigate the risk involved in so much of our work.
We may be able to mitigate that slightly. - We believe that most of your ships engaged in hostile actions were under the control of some kind of leftover Shadow technology.
I'll be there to mitigate any damage that Crais does.
Please, please, mitigate your fury.
I have spoke thus much to mitigate the justice of your plea, which if you follow this strict course of Venice must needs give sentence against the merchant there.
The more and more we put mandates on the school, to be very myopic in their focus, we mitigate against all of these other areas where they should be devoting time and energy, including phys ed, nutrition, health.
I must tell you, Commissioner, that even with that last bit added. what exactly will or won't qualify. or mitigate the presumption of ownership, eludes me.
But then they start to fucking mitigate!
We can still mitigate this.
Unless you mitigate.
We may be able to mitigate that slightly.
The heat of passion can mitigate murder, but not attempted murder.
It's a very bad joke. I was trying to mitigate somebody's lifetime embarrassment.
Get flippant. That'll mitigate the offense just fine.
It helps mitigate impatience when they sit with a pretty girl in the room.
That's three years mandatory. Unless you mitigate.
If we handle this right, maybe we can mitigate the fallout.
You need to mitigate the situation because they have a really good lawyer.
Along with dimercaprol chelation, it's been shown to mitigate bone marrow damage from radiation poisoning in monkeys.
My backlog of open cases doesn't mitigate the fact. that your client tried to kill his brother-in-law.
I was trying to mitigate somebody's lifetime embarrassment.
That'll mitigate the offense just fine.
I must tell you, Commissioner, that even with that last bit added, what exactly will or won't qualify or mitigate the presumption of ownership eludes me.
What we're trying to do here is get genes into the potatoes that would mitigate the need for all that spraying. it's this manipulation of genes that's the source of contention.
Honestly Ted, I'm just surprised you know the difference between litigate and mitigate.
Similarly when we have a large system like a power system or a telephone grid that can be effected by the weather and space, we need to know what the weather is going to be so that we can try to mitigate it.

News and current affairs

The gap between the cost of carbon-free and carbon-emitting technology fell, and the taxes designed to mitigate emissions became more effective.
In hindsight, these exchange-rate swings mirrored the initial collapse and subsequent rebound in global trade, helping to mitigate the recession.
While a distraught world is still trying to fathom the consequences of this global crash and to mitigate its impact, the call of the next black swan can already be heard: the global climate disaster.
Monetary policy is far from powerless to mitigate a contraction in economic activity when deflation strikes, or when an economy flirts dangerously with it.
But the lesson from the current crisis is that we will have to develop styles of global economic governance to manage, regulate, and mitigate the creative, but often disruptive forces unleashed by the global market.
Indeed, the Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen has demonstrated that free speech even helps mitigate seemingly natural catastrophes like famines, because it reveals the ways in which a few haves exploit the many have-nots.
They also have a chance to advance the use of market mechanisms to do two things: mitigate climate change, and, at the same time, create incentives for expanded use of clean energy.
The world needs strategies to mitigate this looming volatility.
Fortunately, there are a few things governments can do to mitigate the effects of inertial spending.
Tucker's proposal makes good sense, but it is difficult - and arguably unethical - for charities that raised money to help Haitians now to divert some of those funds to programs to mitigate the damage caused by future earthquakes.
There may be ways to mitigate the result, but without immigration social benefits across Europe will have to be reduced massively within a generation.
And, in advanced countries, a larger female labor force can help to counteract the impact of a shrinking workforce and mitigate the costs of an aging population.
Paradoxically, that is a good thing, because it means that risk-management technology can be used to mitigate the problem.
As emerging-market central banks leaned against heavy capital inflows in order to mitigate exchange-rate appreciation, their currencies became less volatile.
According to the conventional wisdom of many environmental campaigners, we should first do everything we can to mitigate global warming, and only then focus on adaptation strategies.
Only a patient, creative, and consistent engagement strategy will mitigate fears on both sides.
As a result, they have the fiscal firepower to boost consumption in order to mitigate the effects of declining exports.
That cannot happen with a common currency, and economic adjustment is doubly difficult when labor is not mobile enough to help mitigate regional contractions in income and unemployment.
To mitigate such risks, the international community could maintain its traditional policy of sitting tight and hoping that governments retain control of their nuclear infrastructure.
As previous crises have shown, and as the current downturn in China has highlighted, steps must be taken to mitigate market risks.
MILAN - Action to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions and mitigate climate change has long been viewed as fundamentally opposed to economic growth.
The economic costs of action to mitigate climate change rise non-linearly as action is delayed.
The report also sheds light on another important question in the climate debate: Is global cooperation critical to mitigate climate change?
This means that, though international coordination will be an important factor in the long-term success of action to mitigate climate change, its complications need not - and should not - hold progress hostage.
The way to achieve this is to decouple the question of who pays for most efforts to mitigate climate change from the question of where, geographically, these efforts take place.
But a sector-by-sector approach could mitigate these handicaps, and, given the pressing need to address demand for energy and climate change, it might be strategically advisable to start with the energy sector.
Now, as Japan's economic recovery stalls, the country's business sector seems to be pressuring Abe's government to work harder to mitigate the impact of its deteriorating relationship with China.
All of these issues test the region's ability to manage peace and mitigate tensions between its main powers - and thus underscore the concern that Hatoyama and Rudd raised.
Robust Japanese participation would mitigate Asia-Pacific polarization and contribute to building momentum for regional integration.
The bottom line, though, is that better policies can at best mitigate the economic consequences of this horrible recession.
Yet the entire OSCE toolbox has been mobilized to mitigate the crisis, as well as to support other critical steps, including constitutional reform, the protection of ethnic minority rights, and political dialogue and reconciliation.

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