lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of
"The circumstances extenuate the crime"
make less severe or harsh
"mitigating circumstances"
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mitigate
Children increase the cares of life, but mitigate the remembrance of death. [ Proverb ]
'Tis long ere time can mitigate your grief; To wisdom fly, she quickly brings relief. [ Grotius ]
To rejoice in another's prosperity, is to give content to your own lot; to mitigate another's grief, is to alleviate or dispel your own. [ Thomas Edwards ]
Children sweeten labors, but they make misfortunes more bitter; they increase the cares of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death. [ Bacon ]
Equality is deemed by many a mere speculative chimera, which can never be reduced to practice. But if the abuse is inevitable, does it follow that we ought not to try at least to mitigate it? It is precisely because the force of things tends always to destroy equality that the force of the legislature must always tend to maintain it. [ Rousseau ]
mitigatein Scrabble®
The word mitigate is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.
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The word mitigate is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.
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