extenuateformal

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Making things better
add salt to somethingidiom
allay
alleviate
alleviation
ameliorate
cultivate
levelling up
lighten
liven (something) up
lubricate
make a differenceidiom
make a world of differenceidiom
remedial
repolish
restructure
revamp
revitalize
revivify
sharpen
tonic

Examples of mitigated

mitigated

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

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.
These can be mitigated if governments anchor liberalization commitments in regional agreements that supplement the multilateral process.
In this way, it mitigated both the unresolved problem of democratic control under capitalism, and the deficiencies of collective services.
The governess's presence made the middle-class family's social replication of itself possible; imagining her as only supplemental mitigated its dependence on such an aristocratic holdover.
Thus, a border dispute is successfully managed if the dispute is resolved, mitigated or at least prevented from escalation.
Many genetic disadvantages, for example, can be mitigated without recourse to actual genetic manipulation.
The government campaigns neither mitigated the prevalence or severity of clitoridectomy nor did they wrest full control of female initiation away from older women.
A further advantage applicable to low-temperature environments is that diurnal freeze-thaw cycles might be mitigated, reducing freeze-thaw stress to the microbes.
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