mitigate

动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To reduce, lessen, or decrease and thereby to make less severe or easier to bear. transitive
    — Measures are pursuing to prevent or mitigate the usual consequences of such outrages, and with the hope of their succeeding at least to avert general hostility.
  2. To downplay. transitive
  3. To give force or effect toward preventing a problem. intransitive,proscribed
    — We've mitigated against the chance of flooding.
形容词 adj.
  1. Mitigated, alleviated. obsolete

词形变化

mitigates present,singular,third-person mitigating participle,present mitigated participle,past mitigated past more mitigate comparative most mitigate superlative

词汇关系

反义词
aggrandize aggravate exacerbate incite increase intensify irritate worsen
衍生词
mitigatable mitigative mitigator remitigate
相关词
mitigable mitigant mitigated mitigating mitigation mitigatory
并列词
ameliorate

词源

词源 1
From Middle English mitigaten (“to relieve pain, soothe; (swelling) to abate; (hemorrhoids) to relieve; (the mind) to placate, appease; to end, check; to stop, cease”), from mitigat(e) (“mitigated, alleviated, relived”, also used as the past participle of mitigaten) + -en (verb-forming suffix), borrowed from Latin mītigātus, the perfect passive participle of mītigō (“to make soft, ripe; to tame, pacify”), from mītis (“gentle, mild, ripe”) + -igō (“to do, make”), of uncertain origin, but perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁y- (“mild, soft”).
词源 2
From Middle English mitigat(e) (“mitigated”, also used as the past participle of mitigaten and of mitigate in Early Modern English), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.
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