mitigate
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 3 Aug
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Verb meaning to make less severe, harmful, or painful
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newest first · ▶ plays the momentPeter SokolowskiMerriam-Webster's Word of the Day · mitigate · 1:30 · 3 Aug
…Even William Faulkner used mitigate in this way in his 1932 short story, Centaur in Brass, writing, it's as though there were some intangible and invisible social force that mitigates against him.…
Peter SokolowskiMerriam-Webster's Word of the Day · mitigate · 1:20 · 3 Aug
…But confusion between the two has existed for long enough that some language experts accept mitigate against as an idiomatic alternative to militate.…
Peter SokolowskiMerriam-Webster's Word of the Day · mitigate · 1:10 · 3 Aug
…Mitigate comes from the Latin verb mitigare, meaning to soften, whereas militate traces to militare, meaning to engage in warfare.…
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