Sharper minds Militate and mitigate Militate means to counteract, to have an effect against something. Mitigate means to mollify or alleviate--to make less severe or painful. Examples: The autocratic power given to the school superintendent militates against freedom of speech. We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate. (Martin Luther King, Jr.) Source: R Nordquist
Posted on: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 10:20:00 +0000