mitigate
verb (used with object)
to lessen in force or intensity, as wrath, grief, harshness, or pain; moderate.
mitigator
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a word derived from
mitigate.
Example Sentences
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“Depp has a hill to climb. Heard has a mountain to climb,” said Eric Dezenhall, a crisis mitigator in Washington with no involvement in the case.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 2, 2022
People need a place where they can own their customer relationships, where there’s not a mitigator between the consumer and the author and the creator and the merchant or whoever it is.
From The Verge ● Jun. 22, 2021
Put differently, one brother couldn’t put forth a mitigator without exacerbating the culpability of the other.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2015
“Cash is the risk mitigator that we have,” says Watson.
From Forbes ● Feb. 13, 2013
Side by side, again, with war and love, appears in the romances medieval religion, likewise conventionalized and childishly superstitious, but in some inadequate degree a mitigator of cruelty and a restrainer of lawless passion.
From A History of English Literature by Robert Huntington Fletcher
