All 5 Uses of
mitigate
in
The Waves
- There were the floating, pale-grey clouds; and the immitigable tree; the implacable tree with its greaved silver bark.†
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- But we are doomed, all of us, by the apple trees, by the immitigable tree which we cannot pass.†
- Yet how painful to be recalled, to be mitigated, to have one's self adulterated, mixed up, become part of another.†
- And going upstairs I could not raise my foot against the immitigable apple tree with its silver leaves held stiff.†
- I will stand for one moment beneath the immitigable tree, alone with the man whose throat is cut, while downstairs the cook shoves in and out the dampers.†
Definition:
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(mitigate) make less harmful or unpleasant