All 4 Uses of
mitigate
in
The Adventures of Augie March
- And if there's some amount of sun in the dusty weep marks of the window, it can be even worse for the brain than those iron-deep clouds, just plain brutal and not mitigated.†
Chpt 9 *mitigated = made less harmful or unpleasant
- It maybe means that what is needed to mitigate the foolishness or dissolve the deception is always superabundantly about and insistently offered to us—a black offer in Charing Cross; a gray in Place Pereires where you see so many kinds and varieties of beings go to and fro in the liquid and fog; a brown in the straight unity of Wabash Avenue.†
Chpt 11
- There have great things been done to mitigate the worst human sights and teach you something different from revulsion at them.†
Chpt 12
- I felt what a terrible thing I had done to her by this, and so I tried to mitigate it.†
Chpt 18
Definition:
make less harmful or unpleasant