Release vs Mitigate - What's the difference?
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The event of setting (someone or something) free (e.g. hostages, slaves, prisoners, caged animals, hooked or stuck mechanisms).
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, title= (software) The distribution of an initial or new and upgraded version of a computer software product; the distribution can be both public or private.
Anything recently released or made available (as for sale).
That which is released, untied or let go.
To let go (of); to cease to hold or contain.
To make available to the public.
To free or liberate; to set free.
To discharge.
(telephone) (of a call) To hang up.
(legal) To let go, as a legal claim; to discharge or relinquish a right to, as lands or tenements, by conveying to another who has some right or estate in possession, as when the person in remainder releases his right to the tenant in possession; to quit.
To loosen; to relax; to remove the obligation of.
(soccer) To set up; to provide with a goal-scoring opportunity
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, title= To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
To reduce, lessen, or decrease.
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To downplay.
In transitive terms the difference between release and mitigate
is that release is to lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back while mitigate is to downplay.As verbs the difference between release and mitigate
is that release is to let go (of); to cease to hold or contain while mitigate is to reduce, lessen, or decrease.As a noun release
is the event of setting (someone or something) free (e.g. hostages, slaves, prisoners, caged animals, hooked or stuck mechanisms).release
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) relaisser (variant of relascher).Noun
(en noun)Charles T. Ambrose
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Derived terms
* prerelease * release notes * release from requirement * software release * release processVerb
(releas)- to release an ordinance
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Antonyms
* holdEtymology 2
Verb
(releas)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.