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"ref": "1795, George Washington, Seventh State of the Union Address:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "1813, James Madison, Fifth State of the Union Address:",
"text": "But in yielding to it the retaliation has been mitigated as much as possible, both in its extent and in its character...",
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{
"ref": "1896, Walter Hadwen, The Case Against Vaccination:",
"text": "Then they tell us that vaccination will mitigate the disease that it will make it milder.",
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{
"ref": "1900 December – 1901 August, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter 7, in The First Men in the Moon, London: George Newnes, […], published 1901, →OCLC:",
"text": "Then I discovered the brilliance of the landscape around was mitigated by blue spectacles.",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "1920, H. P. Lovecraft, The Cats of Ulthar:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "2018 December 1, Drachinifel, 8:56 from the start, in Anti-Slavery Patrols - The West Africa Squadron, archived from the original on 2024-11-29:",
"text": "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.",
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{
"ref": "2021 October 6, Greg Morse, “A need for speed and the drive for 125”, in RAIL, number 941, page 53:",
"text": "But then crashworthiness is not about preventing accidents, but about mitigating their consequences.",
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"To reduce, lessen, or decrease and thereby to make less severe or easier to bear."
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"(transitive, of problems or flaws) To reduce, lessen, or decrease and thereby to make less severe or easier to bear."
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"sense": "to reduce, lessen, or decrease",
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"sense": "to reduce, lessen, or decrease",
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"sense": "to reduce, lessen, or decrease",
"word": "dæmpe"
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"sense": "to reduce, lessen, or decrease",
"word": "mitigeren"
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"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to reduce, lessen, or decrease",
"word": "verzachten"
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"word": "mildigi"
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"sense": "to reduce, lessen, or decrease",
"word": "lieventää"
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"sense": "to reduce, lessen, or decrease",
"word": "helpottaa"
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"sense": "to reduce, lessen, or decrease",
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"sense": "to reduce, lessen, or decrease",
"word": "atténuer"
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"sense": "to reduce, lessen, or decrease",
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"sense": "to reduce, lessen, or decrease",
"word": "mildern"
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"_dis1": "99 0 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to reduce, lessen, or decrease",
"word": "abschwächen"
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "to reduce, lessen, or decrease",
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"sense": "to reduce, lessen, or decrease",
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"sense": "to reduce, lessen, or decrease",
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"sense": "to reduce, lessen, or decrease",
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"sense": "to reduce, lessen, or decrease",
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"sense": "to reduce, lessen, or decrease",
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"sense": "to reduce, lessen, or decrease",
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"sense": "to reduce, lessen, or decrease",
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"sense": "to reduce, lessen, or decrease",
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"sense": "to reduce, lessen, or decrease",
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"sense": "to reduce, lessen, or decrease",
"word": "lindra"
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"sense": "to reduce, lessen, or decrease",
"word": "mildra"
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"sense": "to reduce, lessen, or decrease",
"word": "azaltmak"
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"sense": "to reduce, lessen, or decrease",
"word": "dindirmek"
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"sense": "to reduce, lessen, or decrease",
"word": "hafifletmek"
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"sense": "to reduce, lessen, or decrease",
"word": "yumuşatmak"
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"sense": "to reduce, lessen, or decrease",
"word": "yatıştırmak"
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"sense": "to reduce, lessen, or decrease",
"word": "tadil etmek"
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"roman": "pomʺjakšuvaty",
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"roman": "polehšuvaty",
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"roman": "zmenšuvaty",
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"_dis1": "99 0 1",
"code": "vi",
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"sense": "to reduce, lessen, or decrease",
"word": "giảm nhẹ"
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{
"_dis1": "99 0 1",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to reduce, lessen, or decrease",
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"(transitive) To downplay."
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"etymology_text": "From Middle English mitigat(e) (“mitigated”, also used as the past participle of mitigaten and of mitigate in Early Modern English), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more mitigate",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most mitigate",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
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"args": {},
"expansion": "mitigate (comparative more mitigate, superlative most mitigate)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses"
],
"glosses": [
"mitigated, alleviated"
],
"links": [
[
"mitigated",
"mitigated"
],
[
"alleviated",
"alleviated"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) mitigated, alleviated"
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Early Modern English"
],
"word": "mitigate"
}
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