Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to mitigate
Participle: mitigated
Gerund: mitigating
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | mitigate |
| you | mitigate |
| he;she;it | mitigates |
| we | mitigate |
| you | mitigate |
| they | mitigate |
Perfect
| I | have mitigated |
| you | have mitigated |
| he;she;it | has mitigated |
| we | have mitigated |
| you | have mitigated |
| they | have mitigated |
Past
| I | mitigated |
| you | mitigated |
| he;she;it | mitigated |
| we | mitigated |
| you | mitigated |
| they | mitigated |
Pluperfect
| I | had mitigated |
| you | had mitigated |
| he;she;it | had mitigated |
| we | had mitigated |
| you | had mitigated |
| they | had mitigated |
Future
| I | will mitigate |
| you | will mitigate |
| he;she;it | will mitigate |
| we | will mitigate |
| you | will mitigate |
| they | will mitigate |
Future Perfect
| I | will have mitigated |
| you | will have mitigated |
| he;she;it | will have mitigated |
| we | will have mitigated |
| you | will have mitigated |
| they | will have mitigated |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | mitigate |
| you | mitigate |
| he;she;it | mitigate |
| we | mitigate |
| you | mitigate |
| they | mitigate |
Perfect
| I | have mitigated |
| you | have mitigated |
| he;she;it | have mitigated |
| we | have mitigated |
| you | have mitigated |
| they | have mitigated |
Imperfect
| I | mitigated |
| you | mitigated |
| he;she;it | mitigated |
| we | mitigated |
| you | mitigated |
| they | mitigated |
Pluperfect
| I | had mitigated |
| you | had mitigated |
| he;she;it | had mitigated |
| we | had mitigated |
| you | had mitigated |
| they | had mitigated |
Conditional
Present
| I | would mitigate |
| you | would mitigate |
| he;she;it | would mitigate |
| we | would mitigate |
| you | would mitigate |
| they | would mitigate |
Perfect
| I | would have mitigated |
| you | would have mitigated |
| he;she;it | would have mitigated |
| we | would have mitigated |
| you | would have mitigated |
| they | would have mitigated |
Imperative
| you | mitigate |
| we | Let's mitigate |
| you | mitigate |
Verbs conjugated like 'mitigate'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'mitigate'
litigate,
fatigate,
militate,
miniate,
motivate,
mutilate,
titivate,
vitiate,
abligate,
activate,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- diminish in force or intensity
- abate, alleviate, assuage, decline, ebb, relax, subside, temper, wane
- relieve
- allay, alleviate, lessen, assuage, decrease, ease, lighten, mollify
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
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”).
Sample Sentences
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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. [1795, George Washington, Seventh State of the Union Address:]
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But in yielding to it the retaliation has been mitigated as much as possible, both in its extent and in its character... [1813, James Madison, Fifth State of the Union Address:]
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Then they tell us that vaccination will mitigate the disease that it will make it milder. [1896, Walter Hadwen, The Case Against Vaccination:]
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Then I discovered the brilliance of the landscape around was mitigated by blue spectacles. [1900 December – 1901 August, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter 7, in The First Men in the Moon, London: George Newnes, […], published 1901, →OCLC:]
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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. [1920, H. P. Lovecraft, The Cats of Ulthar:]
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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. [2018 December 1, Drachinifel, 8:56 from the start, in Anti-Slavery Patrols - The West Africa Squadron, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2024:]
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But then crashworthiness is not about preventing accidents, but about mitigating their consequences. [2021 October 6, Greg Morse, “A need for speed and the drive for 125”, in RAIL, number 941, page 53:]
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We've mitigated against the chance of flooding.