MITIGATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mitigated mean? 

• MITIGATED (adjective)
  The adjective MITIGATED has 1 sense:

1. made less severe or intense

  Familiarity information: MITIGATED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MITIGATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Made less severe or intense

Context example:

he gladly accepted the mitigated penalty

Similar:

alleviated; eased; relieved ((of pain or sorrow) made easier to bear)

lessened (decreased in severity; made less harsh)

quenched; satisfied; slaked (allayed)

Antonym:

unmitigated (not diminished or moderated in intensity or severity; sometimes used as an intensifier)

 Context examples 

In a group of mice that consumed the fasting-mimicking diet for four days before resuming a normal diet (repeating this process through two cycles), researchers noted that some IBD symptoms and issues were reversed and others were mitigated.

(Fasting-Like Diets May Reverse Gut Inflammation, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology (GT) and University of South Carolina Beaufort, both in the United States, reported warming seas appear to decrease the efficacy of the chemical compounds that corals release into the water to defend themselves from bacteria and encroaching seaweed, but these losses may be mitigated if there are large numbers of hungry fish around.

(Voracious fish defend coral reefs against warming, Wikinews)