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Mitigate vs Redress - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between mitigate and redress

is that mitigate is to reduce, lessen, or decrease while redress is to put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise.

As a noun redress is

the act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment.

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 ----

    redress

    English

    (wikipedia redress)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) redrecier and (etyl) redresser, from (re-) + .

    Verb

    (es)
  • To put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise.
  • * Milton
    • In yonder spring of roses intermixed / With myrtle, find what to redress till noon.
  • * A. Hamilton
    • your wish that I should redress a certain paper which you had prepared
  • To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Those wrongs, those bitter injuries, / I doubt not but with honour to redress .
  • To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.
  • * Dryden
    • 'Tis thine, O king! the afflicted to redress .
  • * Byron
    • Will Gaul or Muscovite redress ye?
  • (obsolete) To put upright again; to restore.
  • * 1485 , Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur , Book X:
    • ‘Well,’ sayde Sir Palomydes, ‘than shall ye se how we shall redresse oure myghtes!’
    Derived terms
    * self-redress

    Noun

    (redresses)
  • The act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment.
  • A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or oppression; as, the redress of grievances; hence, relief; remedy; reparation; indemnification.
  • One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.

    • Etymology 2

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    Verb

    (es)
  • To dress again.
  • * 1963 , Albert J. Solnit, ?Milton J. E. Senn, ?Sally Provence, Modern perspectives in child development (page 588)
    • The teacher first undressed and redressed the doll for the child, then showed her how to pull the snaps apart. No other activity interested the little girl, and after repeated demonstrations she was still trying unsuccessfully to undress the doll.
  • To redecorate a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.

    • Noun

    (redresses)
  • The redecoration of a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.
    • This is a redress of the office set.

    Anagrams

    * English heteronyms