mitigate

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vt. 温和, 缓和, 减轻 [医] 缓和, 减轻

发音

US /ˈmɪt.ɪ.ɡeɪt/
AU /ˈmɪt.ɪ.ɡeɪt/

词形变化

mitigated mitigates 三单 mitigates mitigatest mitigateth mitigating mitigating 现在分词 mitigated 过去式 mitigated 过去分词 more mitigate 比较级 most mitigate 最高级

教材释义与例句

动词

使缓和，使减轻

动词

减轻，缓和下来

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To reduce, lessen, or decrease and thereby to make less severe or easier to bear.

    缓解

    减少

    及物
  2. 2.

    To downplay.

    及物
  3. 3.

    To give force or effect toward preventing a problem.

    不及物

    We've mitigated against the chance of flooding.

adj.
  1. 1.

    Mitigated, alleviated.

    废旧

词汇关系

动词

同义词 2

extenuate palliate

上位词 8

excuse apologize apologise decrease lessen rationalize minify rationalise

下位词 2

relieve lighten

词源

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”).

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