Eradicate vs Mitigate - What's the difference?
eradicate | mitigate |
To pull up by the roots; to uproot.
To completely destroy; to reduce to nothing radically; to put an end to; to extirpate.
To reduce, lessen, or decrease.
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To downplay.
In transitive terms the difference between eradicate and mitigate
is that eradicate is to completely destroy; to reduce to nothing radically; to put an end to; to extirpate while mitigate is to downplay.eradicate
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Verb
(eradicat)- Small pox was globally eradicated in 1980
Synonyms
* (to pull up by the roots): root up, uproot * (to completely destroy): annihilate, exterminate, extirpate * See alsoAntonyms
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* * ----mitigate
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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.
