Usually means: Reduce severity, seriousness, or impact.
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We found 40 dictionaries that define the word mitigate:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. mitigate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. mitigate: Merriam-Webster
  3. mitigate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. mitigate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. mitigate: Collins English Dictionary
  6. mitigate: Vocabulary.com
  7. Mitigate, mitigate: Wordnik
  8. mitigate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. mitigate: Wiktionary
  10. mitigate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. mitigate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. mitigate: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. mitigate: Dictionary.com
  14. mitigate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. mitigate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Mitigate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Mitigate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. mitigate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. mitigate: Rhymezone
  20. mitigate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. mitigate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. mitigate: FreeDictionary.org
  23. mitigate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. mitigate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. mitigate: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. mitigate: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. mitigate: Legal dictionary
  6. Glossary of Labor & Legal Terminology (No longer online)

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. mitigate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. mitigate: Sound Alike Words
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. mitigate: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  5. mitigate: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mitigate: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mitigate: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive, of problems or flaws) To reduce, lessen, or decrease and thereby to make less severe or easier to bear.
verb:  (transitive) To downplay.
verb:  (intransitive, proscribed) To give force or effect toward preventing a problem.

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