remitigate

R1E1M3I1T1I1G2A1T1E1

verb

To mitigate again.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

verbremitigate (third-person singular simple present remitigates, present participle remitigating, simple past and past participle remitigated)

present singular third person remitigates · participle present remitigating · participle past remitigated · past remitigated

  1. To mitigate again.

    Izadpanah must approach this topic afresh and remitigate his anxiety by marrying Farideh, who is described as having an “outward appearance” that “consisted of thick gray socks, manly flat shoes, and furled up eyebrows” (216).

    2015, Manijeh Mannani, Veronica Thompson, Familiar and Foreign: Identity in Iranian Film and Literature, page 141
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    yet where the deed is in substance agreeable to the precept, and the apparent singularity of any circumstance remitigated by another extraordinary occurrent, and where the performance is expressly ascribed to the actors zeal or fortitude, and not the least mention made of any special command, there, to recurre to tacite warrants, is altogether groundless.

    1671, Robert MacWard, The True Non-conformist in Answere to the Modest and Free Conference Betwixt a Conformist and a Non-Conformist, About the present Distempers of Scotland, page 387

    I think that if we had a barge instead of being an open-hatched barge like this is with four long cylinders lying on it and vulnerable to being swamped by water getting over into the hole, instead of that, there was an especially designed barge for this, that had buoyancy in itself, then this problem would be certainly remitigated.

    1965, United States. Congress. House. Public Works, Hurricane Betsy Disaster of September 1965, Hearings Before the Special Subcommittee to Investigate Areas of Destruction of Hurricane Betsy

    Is there anything in the Endangered Species Act that requires that when you go in to clean out a flood control channel to you to go back and mitigate every few years, you have to remitigate for that again, even though you had originally mitigated.

    2011, The Views of the Administration on Regulatory Reform, page 50

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