Assist vs Mitigate - What's the difference?
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(label) To stand (at a place) or to (an opinion).
(label) To attend
* 1967 , The Rev. Loren Gavitt (ed.), Saint Augustine's Prayer Book: A Book of Devotion for members of the Episcopal Church , revised edition, West Park, NY: Holy Cross Publications, p. 8:
To help.
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(sports) To make a pass that leads directly towards scoring.
A helpful action or an act of giving.
(sports) A statistic used in different sports to quantify the act of helping another player score points or goals; in baseball, an assist is defensive, allowing a teammate to record a putout.
To reduce, lessen, or decrease.
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To downplay.
As verbs the difference between assist and mitigate
is that assist is to stand (at a place) or to (an opinion) while mitigate is to reduce, lessen, or decrease.As a noun assist
is a helpful action or an act of giving.assist
English
Verb
(en verb)- A great part of the nobility assisted to his opinion.
- To assist at Mass every Sunday and Holy Day of Obligation.
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Derived terms
* assister * assistiveNoun
(en noun)- The foundation gave a much needed assist to the shelter.
- He had two assists in the game.
Derived terms
* assistful * assistlessAnagrams
* ----mitigate
English
Verb
(mitigat)- 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.