Sample Sentences for
mitigate
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    Veterans of the factory knew that these didn't prevent or mitigate the accidents, nor did they protect workers from heat exhaustion or respiratory diseases.  (source)
    mitigate = make less harmful
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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)
    mitigating = extenuating (to make less bad)
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    This mitigating circumstance prevents us from coming to a verdict.  (source)
    mitigating = making 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 misunderstanding ... would be mitigated.  (source)
    mitigated = made less harmful or unpleasant
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    On the other hand, there could be mitigation in your case.  (source)
    mitigation = reduction in harm or unpleasantness
    standard 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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    The third lesson is that even when a social problem is so vast as to be insoluble in its entirety, it's still worth mitigating.  (source)
    mitigating = making less harmful or unpleasant
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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)
    standard 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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    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)
    standard 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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    He continued immitigably grave, either because he thought it becoming in a place over which death had just passed, or for more personal reasons.†  (source)
    standard 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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    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)
    standard 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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