Mitigate vs Inspection - What's the difference?
mitigate | inspection |
To reduce, lessen, or decrease.
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To downplay.
Act of examining something, often closely.
Organization that checks that certain laws or rules are obeyed.
As a verb mitigate
is to reduce, lessen, or decrease.As a noun inspection is
act of examining something, often closely.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.
Synonyms
* (to reduce or lessen) check, diminish, ease, lighten, mollify, pacify, palliateAntonyms
* (to reduce or lessen) aggrandize, aggravate, exacerbate, incite, increase, intensify, irritate, worsenCoordinate terms
* (l)inspection
English
Alternative forms
* enspection * (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Upon closer inspection, the animal turned out to be a dolphin, not a shark!
- The inspection fined the restaurant's owner because the kitchen was dirty.
