mitigate

Alternative forms: mitigation, mitigated, mitigating, mitigates … (to help future Googlers find this page)

English

• mitigate

Alleviate, moderate, reduce, lessen

• bestrijden
• tegengaan, tegengegaan
• verbetering, verbeteren
• mitigatie, mitigeren (‘verzachten, matigen, verlichten’ -Van Dale)
• matigen
• verlichten
• beperken, beperking
• lenigen
• tot bedaren brengen
• verzachting, verzachten

Get rid of (i.e. entirely)

Note: Although it’s in the Van Dale, I'm not sure this meaning is correct.

• wegnemen (m.b.t. een probleem)
• eliminering, elimineren

Van Dale Groot Woordenboek van de Nederlandse taal (14e ed., 2005)

mitigeren: verzachten, matigen, verlichten

Oxforddictionaries.com

mitigate:

1. Make (something bad) less severe, serious, or painful: ‘drainage schemes have helped to mitigate this problem’

synonyms: alleviate, reduce, diminish, lessen, weaken, lighten, attenuate, take the edge off, allay, ease, assuage, palliate, cushion, damp, deaden, dull, appease, soothe, relieve, help, soften, temper, still, quell, tone down, blunt, dilute, moderate, modify, abate, lull, pacify, placate, mollify, sweeten, tranquillize, remit, extenuate, excuse, commute;

1.1 Lessen the gravity of (an offence or mistake): ‘there had been a provocation that mitigated the offence to a degree’

synonyms: extenuating, exonerative, justificatory, justifying, vindicatory, vindicating, exculpatory, palliative, qualifying, moderating, modifying, tempering, lessening

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