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Mitigate vs Unbend - What's the difference?

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Mitigate is a related term of unbend.


As verbs the difference between mitigate and unbend

is that mitigate is to reduce, lessen, or decrease while unbend is to free from flexure; to make, or allow to become, straight; to loosen.

mitigate

English

Verb

(mitigat)
  • To reduce, lessen, or decrease.
  • * 1795 —
    • 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.
  • * 1813 —
    • But in yielding to it the retaliation has been mitigated as much as possible, both in its extent and in its character...
  • * 1896 —
    • Then they tell us that vaccination will mitigate the disease that it will make it milder.
  • * 1901 — , ch 7
    • Then I discovered the brilliance of the landscape around was mitigated by blue spectacles.
  • * 1920 —
    • 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.
  • To downplay.

    • Synonyms

    * (to reduce or lessen) check, diminish, ease, lighten, mollify, pacify, palliate

    Antonyms

    * (to reduce or lessen) aggrandize, aggravate, exacerbate, incite, increase, intensify, irritate, worsen

    Coordinate terms

    * (l)

    Related terms

    * mitigated * mitigating * mitigation * mitigant ----

    unbend

    English

    Verb

  • To free from flexure; to make, or allow to become, straight; to loosen.
    • to unbend a bow
  • To remit from a strain or from exertion; to set at ease for a time; to relax.
    • to unbend the mind from study or care
  • * Shakespeare
    • You do unbend your noble strength.
  • To unfasten, as sails, from the spars or stays to which they are attached for use.
  • To cast loose or untie, as a rope.
  • To cease to be bent; to become straight or relaxed.
  • To relax in exertion, attention, severity, or the like; hence, to indulge in mirth or amusement.
  • *1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter VI
  • *:He spent the afternoon shaping a swagger-stick from the branch of jarrah and talking with Miss La Rue, who had sufficiently unbent toward him to notice his existence.