verb To make something less severe, harmful, or serious.
- Then I discovered the brilliance of the landscape around was mitigated by blue spectacles.
— , Herbert George Wells (1900)
- Planting trees along the street can help mitigate the heat during the summer.
- The new policy is designed to mitigate the effects of climate change.
- Wearing a seatbelt helps mitigate injury in a crash.
- The plague had not been kind to him, yet had left him this small furry thing to mitigate his sorrow; and when one is very young, one can find great relief in the lively antics of a black kitten.
— H. P. Lovecraft, The Cats of Ulthar (1920)
- But then crashworthiness is not about preventing accidents, but about mitigating their consequences.
— Greg Morse, A need for speed and the drive for 125 (2021)
