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mitigate
verb (mitigated , mitigating )
1 law to partially excuse something or make it less serious.
2 to make (pain, anger, etc) less severe.
[15c: from Latin mitigare to calm or soothe]
mitigating adjective .
mitigation noun .
mitigator noun .

mitigate, militate Mitigate is a transitive verb, and is often confused with militate, which is intransitive and has another meaning ( to militate against something). Mitigate is correctly used as in the following example: ? That was wrong of me, but it in no way mitigates your own actions. It is incorrectly used in the following example, in which militates is wanted: ? This is certainly a problem which mitigates against the widest acceptance of the language.

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