To make less severe, intense, harsh, rigorous, painful, etc.; to soften; to meliorate; to alleviate; to diminish; to lessen; as, to mitigate heat or cold; to mitigate grief.
Reduce severity. Risk mitigation – reducing the severity or probability of significant risk by action such as warning people away, or building structures able to avoid or withstand lahar forces.
To lessen or diminish the effects of an impact.
to make [a problem or condition] less serious or less harmful.
To reduce the impact of something.
to lessen or decrease the seriousness of the process to which the word is applied.
make less severe or harsh; "mitigating circumstances"
An attempt to alleviate trouble or cause damage to be less severe.
To make less serious. Mitigating circumstances are circumstances surrounding a crime that tend to make it less serious.
to reduce the severity of.
To lessen damages. The law generally requires you to make an effort to reduce your own losses. For example, if a tenant moves out before the lease is up, the landlord must try to rerent the unit.
An approach that deals with risk by developing strategies and actions for reducing (or eliminating) the impact, probability, or both, of the risk to some acceptable level. It may also involve shifting the time frame when the action must be be taken.
taking action to avoid or reduce damages or to make less severe or harsh.(back)
To diminish or reduce. An injured party has the duty to mitigate his/her damages, including pain and suffering, by taking reasonable steps to get better.
Means to reduce. In this instance it means the obligation of a plaintiff to mitigate their loss or injury be means or rehabilitation, rest or treatment as recommended by their doctor.
To make of become milder or less severe.
To make less severe. i.e. steps to eliminate further damage after a loss occurs
To lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of.
To make an impact less severe.
To take practicable means to avoid or minimize the potentially harmful effects of an action (e.g., environmental harm from a selected alternative).
to minimize loss or damage.
Undertake measures to prevent, or reduce to an acceptable level, the impact of a development.
To lessen or make less severe. For example, if your house is flooded, you would attempt to mitigate the damage by doing all you could to protect your home.
To make milder or less painful.
To mitigate is to make less severe or intense; to modulate.
To alleviate, make less onerous.
Action taken by one party in an attempt to reduce damages caused by another.
If one party suffers loss due to a breach of contract by the other, the innocent party must take all reasonable steps to reduce his own losses following the breach. He cannot simply let the losses mount by taking no action.