0 past simple and past participle of mitigate
1 to make something less harmful, unpleasant, or bad:
Older women's more limited access to retirement funds is, however, mitigated among those whose spouses were government workers, because typically they share the benefits.
How can this therapist-client epistemological incompatibility - apparently a clear-cut prescription for therapeutic failure - be traversed or at least mitigated?
It can be hunted down, challenged to reveal itself and then eliminated, mitigated, or accepted.
Also, the adverse skill choice effects are somewhat mitigated.
For the defender, the actual costs of fighting are mitigated by the payoff he receives from continuing possession.
Potential crises will be postponed or mitigated as a result.
This benefit, however, is partly mitigated by neutralizing antibodies that were detectable in 38% to 42% of patients by year 3 (27;46).
By utilizing cross-sectional data within a country, this problem is mitigated.
