mitigate
verb (formal)- mitigate something
to make something less harmful, serious, etc. synonym alleviate减轻;缓和 action to mitigate poverty 减轻贫穷的行动 Soil erosion was mitigated by the planting of trees. 土壤侵蚀的情况在经过植树后缓和了。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryMitigate is used with these nouns as the object:- effect
- impact
- problem
- …
Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin mitigat- ‘softened, alleviated’, from the verb mitigare, from mitis ‘mild’.