mitigate
/ˈmɪt.ɪ.ɡeɪt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.54 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "But in yielding to it the retaliation has been mitigated as much as possible, both in its extent and in its character..."
- "Then they tell us that vaccination will mitigate the disease that it will make it milder."
- "Then I discovered the brilliance of the landscape around was mitigated by blue spectacles."
- "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."
- "This highly-aggressive approach had results, but briefly caused a major uproar in parts of the United States, which was mitigated by the Webster–Ashburton Treaty in 1842, which formalised the U.S. Navy's contribution to the antislavery efforts."
Etymology
From Middle English mitigaten (“to relieve pain, soothe; (swelling) to abate; (hemorrhoids) to relieve; (the mind) to placate, appease; to end, check; to stop, cease”), from mitigat(e) (“mitigated, alleviated, relived”, also used as the past participle of mitigaten) + -en (verb-forming suffix), borrowed from Latin mītigātus, the perfect passive participle of mītigō (“to make soft, ripe; to tame, pacify”), from mītis (“gentle, mild, ripe”) + -igō (“to do, make”), of uncertain origin, but perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁y- (“mild, soft”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: mitigaten, mītigātus, mitigat
Usage
Inflected Forms
mitigates (present, singular)
mitigating (participle, present)
mitigated (participle, past)
mitigated (past)
more mitigate (comparative)
most mitigate (superlative)