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mitigar — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • allay verb To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm.
  • alleviate verb To make pain, suffering, or a problem less severe.
  • assuage verb To make an unpleasant feeling, such as fear, guilt, or grief, less intense.
  • mitigate verb To make something less severe, harmful, or serious.
  • palliate verb To relieve the symptoms of; to ameliorate.

Senses

mitigar is used for these senses in English:

  • allay (transitive) To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate.
  • alleviate (transitive) To reduce or lessen the severity of a pain or difficulty.
  • assuage (transitive) To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain, etc.).
  • mitigate (transitive, of problems or flaws) To reduce, lessen, or decrease and thereby to make less severe or easier to bear.
  • palliate To relieve the symptoms of; to ameliorate. [from 15th c.]

allay — full definition

  1. verb To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm.
  2. verb To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate.
  3. verb To subside, abate, become peaceful.
  4. verb To mix (metals); to mix with a baser metal; to alloy; to deteriorate.

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