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Don't judge her so harshly until you consider the mitigating circumstances.mitigating = serving to make less harmful or unpleasant
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The new factory is building privacy walls to mitigate its impact on neighbors.mitigate = make less harmful or unpleasant
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They were sick with longing for their hands, those appendages men use to mitigate the world. (source)
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What mitigating circumstances? (source)mitigating = extenuating (to make less bad)
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...he was desperate to hear Sirius's own account of what had happened, to know of any mitigating factors there might have been, any excuse at all for his father's behavior… (source)
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Not that the best friend didn't have a few things to answer for, but, obviously, nothing Jacob had done could have mitigated my behavior. (source)mitigated = made less harmful or unpleasant
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Hunter wakes from an overlong nap hungry, wet, and otherwise irritated. When I go to mitigate that, Dad decides to tag along. (source)mitigate = make less unpleasant
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The term used by linguists to describe what Klotz was engaging in in that moment is "mitigated speech," which refers to any attempt to downplay or sugarcoat the meaning of what is being said. (source)mitigated = reduced in harm or unpleasantness
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On the other hand, there could be mitigation in your case. (source)mitigation = reduction in harm or unpleasantnessstandard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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their motives were those of bigotry unmitigated (source)unmitigated = complete (not diminished)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unmitigated means not and reverses the meaning of mitigated. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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He'd been a minor when it happened; there were mitigating circumstances, the judge would acknowledge his sorrow and take pity. (source)mitigating = making less harmful
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He gave them that, and they stood there in front of him, with a thumb hooked in the overall strap, and the eyes under the pulled down hat brim squinting at him as though he were something spied across a valley or cove, something they weren't quite easy in the mind about, too far away to make out good, or a sudden movement in the brush seen way off yonder across the valley or across the field and something might pop out of the brush, and under the eyes the jaw revolving worked the quid with a slow, punctilious, immitigable motion, like historical process.† (source)immitigable = impossible to make less harmful or unpleasantstandard prefix: The prefix "im-" in immitigable means not and reverses the meaning of mitigable. This prefix is sometimes used before words beginning with "M" or "P" as seen in words like immoral, immature, and impossible.
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From that hour of evil omen until the present, it may be,—though we know not the secret of his heart,—but it may be that no wearier and sadder man had ever sunk into the chair than this same Judge Pyncheon, whom we have just beheld so immitigably hard and resolute.† (source)immitigably = not able to be made less harmful or unpleasantstandard affixes: The prefix "im-" in immitigably means not and reverses the meaning of mitigably. This prefix is sometimes used before words beginning with "M" or "P" as seen in words like immoral, immature, and impossible. Note that the root word mitigate first received the suffix "-able" to mean "able to mitigate." Then it recieved the suffix "-ly" to mean "in a manner that is able to be mitigated." Finally the prefix "im-" was added to mean "in a manner that is unable to be mitigated."
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money mitigates many trials; (source)mitigates = makes less harmful or unpleasant
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Listen well: ...For that he was a spirit too delicate To act their earthy and abhorr'd commands, Refusing their grand hests, they did confine him By help of their most potent ministers, And in their most unmitigable rage, Into a cloven pine; within which rift Imprisoned, he didst painfully remain.... Shakespeare.† (source)unmitigable = not able to make less harmful or unpleasantstandard affixes: The prefix "un-" in unmitigable means not and reverses the meaning of mitigable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky. Note that the root word mitigate first received the suffix "-able" to mean "able to mitigate." Finally the prefix "im-" was added to mean "in a manner that is unable to be mitigated."
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His neatly clipped silver hair and tailored suits and unmitigating stare of eyes and trim old body said it all over in simple, clear language: Chief Executive Officer.† (source)unmitigating = not making less harmful or unpleasantstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unmitigating means not and reverses the meaning of mitigating. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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