Mitigates vs Diminished - What's the difference?
mitigates | diminished |
(mitigate)
To reduce, lessen, or decrease.
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To downplay.
(diminish)
lessened, reduced.
(music) reduced by a semitone
As verbs the difference between mitigates and diminished
is that mitigates is (mitigate) while diminished is (diminish).As an adjective diminished is
lessened, reduced.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.
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)diminished
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Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- The diminished Roman Empire never recovered from the sack of Rome.