MEANING
To make something less severe, harmful, or burdensome.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- mitigate harm
- mitigate consequences
On the page
The changes mitigated the harm but did not reverse it.
Her context mitigated the judgment without excusing the act.
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Word forms
- Base
- mitigate
- Past tense
- mitigated
- Past participle
- mitigated
- Present participle
- mitigating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- mitigate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are mitigating
- Present perfect
- have/has mitigated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been mitigating
- Past
- mitigated
- Past continuous
- was/were mitigating
- Past perfect
- had mitigated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been mitigating
- Future
- will mitigate
- Future continuous
- will be mitigating
- Future perfect
- will have mitigated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been mitigating
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: mitigate; mitigates; mitigated; mitigated; mitigating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: mitigates.
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