Cope vs Mitigate - What's the difference?
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To deal effectively with something difficult.
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To cut and form a mitred joint in wood or metal.
(falconry) To clip the beak or talons of a bird.
A long, loose cloak worn by a priest or bishop on ceremonial occasions.
* Bishop Burnet
*1890 , (Oscar Wilde), The Picture of Dorian Gray , ch. XI:
*:He possessed a gorgeous cope of crimson silk and gold-thread damask, figured with a repeating pattern of golden pomegranates set in six-petalled formal blossoms, beyond which on either side was the pine-apple device wrought in seed-pearls.
Any covering such as a canopy or a mantle.
The "vault" or "canopy" of the skies, heavens etc.
* Milton
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(construction) A covering piece on top of a wall exposed to the weather, usually made of metal, masonry, or stone and sloped to carry off water.
(foundry) The top part of a sand casting mold.
An ancient tribute due to the lord of the soil, out of the lead mines in Derbyshire, England.
To cover (a joint or structure) with coping.
To form a cope or arch; to bend or arch; to bow.
* Holland
(obsolete) To bargain for; to buy.
(obsolete) To exchange or barter.
(obsolete) To make return for; to requite; to repay.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To match oneself against; to meet; to encounter.
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* Philips
(obsolete) To encounter; to meet; to have to do with.
* Shakespeare
To reduce, lessen, or decrease.
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To downplay.
As verbs the difference between cope and mitigate
is that cope is while mitigate is to reduce, lessen, or decrease.cope
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Verb
(cop)- I thought I would never be able to cope with life after the amputation, but I have learned how to be happy again.
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Synonyms
* (to deal effectively with) handle, manage, withstandEtymology 2
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- a hundred and sixty priests all in their copes
- the starry cope of heaven
- Who perceiveth and seeth himselfe placed here,farthest from heavens coape , with those creatures, that are the worst of the three conditions; and yet dareth imaginarily place himselfe above the circle of the Moone, and reduce heaven under his feet.
- (Knight)
- (De Colange)
Verb
(cop)- Some bending down and coping to ward the earth.
Etymology 3
Verb
(cop)- (Spenser)
- Three thousand ducats due unto the Jew, / We freely cope your courteous pains withal.
- I love to cope him in these sullen fits.
- They say he yesterday coped Hector in the battle, and struck him down.
- Host coped with host, dire was the battle.
- Horatio, thou art e'en as just a man / As e'er my conversation coped withal.
Anagrams
* * ----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.