mitigate
/mˈɪtʌɡˌeɪt/verb3 syllables
Mitigate means: lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of.
Synonyms for mitigate2
verb, as in lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of
extenuate, palliate
What does mitigate mean?2
verb
1
lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of“The circumstances extenuate the crime”
2
to temper“mitigating circumstances”
Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Mitigate in a sentence
- Wetlands are an important carbon sink, helping to mitigate the effects of climate change.Amastan
- Reducing deforestation is one way to mitigate the impacts of climate change.Hybrid
- Machine learning can be used to predict and mitigate natural disasters.CM
- Wetlands help to mitigate the effects of flooding by absorbing excess water.Amastan
- What can be done to mitigate the risk?ddnktr
- There are measures you can take to mitigate clumping.GemMonkey
- I don't know whether we can fix the problem, but we can mitigate its effects.AlanF_US
- Friendly words will mitigate their fury.swolesuki
Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.
Forms of mitigate
as a verb
- past tense
- mitigated
- present participle
- mitigating
- third-person singular
- mitigates