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Mitigate [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To alleviate, as suffering; to assuage; to lessen; as, to mitigate pain or grief.

2. And counsel mitigates the greatest smart.

3. To make less severe; as, to mitigate doom.

4. To abate; to make less rigorous; to moderate; as, to mitigate cold; to mitigate the severity of the season.

5. To temper; to moderate; to soften in harshness or severity.

6. We could wish that the rigor of their opinions were allayed and mitigated.

7. To calm; to appease; to moderate; as, to mitigate the fierceness of party.

8. To diminish; to render more tolerable; as, to mitigate the evils or calamities of life; to mitigate punishment.

9. To reduce in amount or severity; as, to mitigate a penalty.

10. To soften, or make mild and accessible; in a literal sense.

11. It was this opinion which mitigated kings into companions. [Unusual.]

Mitigate [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. 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.

2. To make mild and accessible; to mollify; -- applied to persons.

Mitigated [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Softened; alleviated; moderated; diminished.

Mitigated [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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