Remedied vs Mitigated - What's the difference?
remedied | mitigated |
(remedy)
Something that corrects or counteracts.
(legal) The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong.
A medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease.
* 1856 : (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
To provide or serve as a remedy for.
* 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 27.
lessened, reduced, diminished
* 1924 — ch 12
(mitigate)
As verbs the difference between remedied and mitigated
is that remedied is (remedy) while mitigated is (mitigate).As an adjective mitigated is
lessened, reduced, diminished.remedied
English
Verb
(head)remedy
English
(wikipedia remedy)Noun
(remedies)- He said to himself that no doubt they would save her; the doctors would discover some remedy surely. He remembered all the miraculous cures he had been told about. Then she appeared to him dead. She was there; before his eyes, lying on her back in the middle of the road. He reined up, and the hallucination disappeared.
Derived terms
* remedilessVerb
- Nor is geometry, when taken into the assistance of natural philosophy, ever able to remedy this defect,
Synonyms
* redress * help * correct * cure * See alsoExternal links
* * *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?