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MITIGATE
Definition of MITIGATE
verb
To reduce, lessen, or decrease and thereby to make less severe or easier to bear.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English mitigaten (“to relieve pain, soothe; (swelling) to abate; (hemorrhoids) to relieve; (the mind) to placate, appease; to end, check; to stop, cease”), from mitigat(e) (“mitigated, alleviated, relived”, also used as the past participle of mitigaten) + -en (verb-forming suffix), borrowed from Latin mītigātus, the perfect passive participle of mītigō (“to make soft, ripe; to tame, pacify”), from mītis (“gentle, mild, ripe”) + -igō (“to do, make”), of uncertain origin, but perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁y- (“mild, soft”).
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MITIGATE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 106, 3 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 106, 3 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MITIGATE starts with M and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEGIIMTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I and T appear more than once.
Words that start MITIGA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found MITIGATE?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 106 - and most players walked straight past it.
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