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Verb
/ˈmitəˌgāt/,
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mitigated, past participle; mitigated, past tense; mitigating, present participle; mitigates, 3rd person singular present;
  1. Make less severe, serious, or painful
    • - he wanted to mitigate misery in the world
  2. Lessen the gravity of (an offense or mistake)
    • - he would have faced a prison sentence but for mitigating circumstances
  1. extenuate: lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of; "The circumstances extenuate the crime"
  2. make less severe or harsh; "mitigating circumstances"
  3. (mitigated) made less severe or intense; "he gladly accepted the mitigated penalty"
  4. (mitigation) extenuation: to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious
  5. (mitigation) extenuation: a partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances
  6. (mitigation) moderation: the action of lessening in severity or intensity; "the object being control or moderation of economic depressions"
  7. (Mitigation (legal)) Mitigation in law is the idea that a party who has suffered loss (from a tort or breach of contract) has to take reasonable action to minimize the amount of the loss suffered. As stated by the Canadian Federal Court of Appeal in Redpath Industries Ltd. v. ...
  8. To reduce, lessen, or decrease
  9. (mitigated) lessened, reduced, diminished
  10. (mitigation) relief; alleviation
  11. (mitigating) Reducing in force or intensity.
  12. (Mitigation) term usually used to refer to various changes or improvements made in a home; for instance, to reduce the average level of radon.
  13. (Mitigation) A sustained action taken to reduce or eliminate long-term risk to people and property from flood hazards and their effects. ...
  14. (Mitigation) With respect to an undertaking, the elimination, reduction or control of the adverse effects or the significant environmental effects of the undertaking, and may include restitution for any damage to the environment caused by such effects through replacement, restoration, ...
  15. NEPA defines mitigation as action taken to avoid, reduce the severity of, or eliminate an adverse impact. ...
  16. (MITIGATION) To moderate, reduce or alleviate the impacts of a proposed activity. Includes, in order: (1) avoiding the impact by not taking a certain action or parts of an action; (2) minimizing impacts by limiting the degree or magnitude of action and its implementation; (3) rectifying the ...
  17. (Mitigation) Acquisition, creation, restoration, or enhancement of wetlands to compensate for permitted wetland impacts.
  18. (Mitigation) In the context of climate change, a human intervention to reduce the sources or enhance the sinks of greenhouse gases. ...
  19. (Mitigation) An action intended to reduce the adverse impact of a specific project or development.
  20. (Mitigation) Working to lessen risk by lowering its chances of occurring or by reducing its effect if it does occur.
  21. (mitigation) Measures taken to reduce adverse effects on the environment.
  22. (mitigation) compensation for damage done.
  23. (Mitigation) Actions or design features that reduce a project's impact on environmental resources. Mitigation actions will avoid, minimize and/or compensate for adverse effects on the environment.
  24. (Mitigation) is the lessening or limitation of the adverse impacts of hazards and related disasters^3.
  25. (Mitigation) in the context of climate change is any action taken to permanently eliminate or reduce the long-term risk to human life, property, and function from the hazards of climate change. Also see the page explaining the relationship between adaptation and mitigation. ...