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41militate / mitigate — Militate means to influence toward or against a change : The banality of Rhoda Book s stories militated against their becoming popular. Mitigate means to lessen, make easier, or bearable : A cold compress on your leg will mitigate the… …
42militate / mitigate — Militate means to influence toward or against a change : The banality of Rhoda Book s stories militated against their becoming popular. Mitigate means to lessen, make easier, or bearable : A cold compress on your leg will mitigate the… …
43duty to mitigate — The obligation of the plaintiff in a breach of contract case to minimize damages resulting from the breach. The Essential Law Dictionary. Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. Amy Hackney Blackwell. 2008 …
44Mitigated — Mitigate Mit i*gate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mitigated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Mitigating}.] [L. mitigatus, p. p. of mitigare to soften, mitigate; mitis mild, soft + the root of agere to do, drive.] 1. To make less severe, intense, harsh, rigorous,… …
45Mitigating — Mitigate Mit i*gate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mitigated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Mitigating}.] [L. mitigatus, p. p. of mitigare to soften, mitigate; mitis mild, soft + the root of agere to do, drive.] 1. To make less severe, intense, harsh, rigorous,… …
46militate — , mitigate Often confused. To militate is to operate against or, much more rarely, for something: The news of the scandal militated against his election promises. To mitigate means to assuage, soften, make more endurable: His apology mitigated… …
47mitigation — mitigate ► VERB 1) make less severe, serious, or painful. 2) (mitigating) (of a fact or circumstance) lessening the gravity or culpability of an action. DERIVATIVES mitigation noun. USAGE The words mitigate and militate are often confused …
48List of commonly misused English words — This is a list of English words which are commonly misused. It is meant to include only words whose misuse is deprecated by most usage writers, editors, and other professional linguists of Standard English. It is possible that some of the… …
49militate — militate, mitigate The two words are sometimes confused (usually mitigate is used for militate) because both meanings are connected with having a reducing effect and their forms and rhythm are close. Mitigate is transitive (i.e. it takes an… …
50Alleviate — Al*le vi*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Alleviated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Alleviating}.] [LL. alleviare, fr. L. ad + levis light. See {Alegge}, {Levity}.] 1. To lighten or lessen the force or weight of. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Should no others join capable… …
