mitigate
To make something less harmful, serious, or painful.
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IELTS kullanımı
Useful in Writing Task 2 when discussing ways to reduce problems such as pollution, climate change, or health risks; also helps in speaking when suggesting practical solutions.
Örnekler
- Governments should take urgent action to mitigate the effects of climate change.
- Planting trees can mitigate the impact of urban flooding.
- Public health campaigns aim to mitigate the spread of infectious diseases.
- The new policy is designed to mitigate the risks associated with automation.
Collocationlar
- mitigate the effects
- Efforts to mitigate the effects of air pollution have proven difficult in densely populated cities.
- mitigate the impact
- Better building standards can mitigate the impact of earthquakes on homes.
- mitigate risks
- Insurance companies often require safety measures to mitigate risks.
- mitigate the damage
- Emergency teams worked quickly to mitigate the damage caused by the oil spill.
Kelime ailesi
- İsim
- mitigation
- Fiil
- mitigate
- Sıfat
- mitigating
Paraphraseler
- reduce the severity: Use when you want a more general and less formal way to explain mitigation.
- lessen the harmful effects: A clear alternative that emphasizes reducing negative consequences.
- alleviate: A near-synonym, though 'alleviate' often refers to direct problems such as pain or poverty.
Yaygın hatalar
- mitigate the disease completely to mitigate the disease. Mitigate means to reduce, not eliminate, so adding 'completely' is contradictory.
- mitigate against the risk to mitigate the risk. 'Mitigate' is a transitive verb and must take a direct object without a preposition.
- mitigate from pollution to mitigate pollution. No preposition is needed after 'mitigate'.
- mitigate the problem in a certain extent to mitigate the problem to a certain extent. Use 'to a certain extent' to express degree, not 'in a certain extent'.