# mitigating

Pronunciation: say "MIT-i-gayt-ing" /ˈmɪt.ɪ.ɡeɪt.ɪŋ/

## Adjective

1. Serving to lessen the severity of something bad or to make it easier to bear.
   - Simple: Making something bad less serious or easier to accept.
   - _Her lawyer argued that her age and clean record were mitigating factors._
   - _The board took no action, citing mitigating circumstances surrounding the delayed report._

## Verb

2. Present participle and gerund of mitigate. — present participle and gerund of mitigate
   - Simple: Present participle and gerund of mitigate. Use it after is, was or were, or as the name of the action.
   - _Engineers are mitigating the risk of landslides by reinforcing the slopes above the road._
   - _The company spent millions on mitigating the environmental harm caused by the spill._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/mitigating (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).