mitigate
verb /ˈmɪtɪɡeɪt/
/ˈmɪtɪɡeɪt/
(formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they mitigate | /ˈmɪtɪɡeɪt/ /ˈmɪtɪɡeɪt/ |
| he / she / it mitigates | /ˈmɪtɪɡeɪts/ /ˈmɪtɪɡeɪts/ |
| past simple mitigated | /ˈmɪtɪɡeɪtɪd/ /ˈmɪtɪɡeɪtɪd/ |
| past participle mitigated | /ˈmɪtɪɡeɪtɪd/ /ˈmɪtɪɡeɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form mitigating | /ˈmɪtɪɡeɪtɪŋ/ /ˈmɪtɪɡeɪtɪŋ/ |
- mitigate something to make something less harmful, serious, etc. synonym alleviate
- action to mitigate poverty
- Soil erosion was mitigated by the planting of trees.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryMitigate is used with these nouns as the object:- effect
- impact
- problem
- …
Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin mitigat- ‘softened, alleviated’, from the verb mitigare, from mitis ‘mild’.