Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being mitigated.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Admitting of mitigation; that may be mitigated.
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- adjective That can be
mitigated
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- adjective capable of being alleviated
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Examples
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But this state of affairs was allowed to continue over a year -- in fact until the downfall of the Confederacy -- without a hand being raised to mitigate the horrors of those places -- without even an inquiry being made as to whether they were mitigable or not.
Andersonville John McElroy 1887
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But this state of affairs was allowed to continue over a year -- in fact until the downfall of the Confederacy -- without a hand being raised to mitigate the horrors of those places -- without even an inquiry being made as to whether they were mitigable or not.
Andersonville — Volume 4 John McElroy 1887
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It’s still a waste of money to spend on “modernizing” the defunct public school system, but not because of the inherent dangers of technology (which are mitigable), but because technology isn’t worth a ruble without competent use of said tech (which I doubt public schools are capable of doing).
Unplug Education. No Computers In Schools. - Dan_McLaughlin’s blog - RedState 2010
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