Mitigate vs X - What's the difference?
mitigate | x |
To reduce, lessen, or decrease.
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To downplay.
The twenty-fourth letter of the .
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As a verb mitigate
is to reduce, lessen, or decrease.As a letter x is
the twenty-fourth letter of the.As a symbol x is
voiceless velar fricative.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.
