Mitigated vs Mitigates - What's the difference?
mitigated | mitigates |
lessened, reduced, diminished
* 1924 — ch 12
(mitigate)
(mitigate)
To reduce, lessen, or decrease.
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* 1920 —
To downplay.
As verbs the difference between mitigated and mitigates
is that mitigated is (mitigate) while mitigates is (mitigate).As an adjective mitigated
is lessened, reduced, diminished.mitigated
English
Adjective
(-)- Well, though many an arraigned mortal has in hopes of mitigated penalty pleaded guilty to horrible actions, did ever anybody seriously confess to envy?
Verb
(head)mitigates
English
Verb
(head)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.
