Remediate vs. Mitigate — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Remediate and Mitigate
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Definitions
Remediate
Provide a remedy for; redress or make right
The most serious flaws are easy to remediate
Mitigate
Make (something bad) less severe, serious, or painful
Drainage schemes have helped to mitigate this problem
Remediate
The act or process of remedying something that is undesirable or deficient
Remediation of the pollution from the factories.
Mitigate
To make less severe or intense; moderate or alleviate.
Remediate
The act or process of providing remedial education
Remediation of poor writing skills in college students.
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Mitigate
To make alterations to (land) to make it less polluted or more hospitable to wildlife.
Remediate
(transitive) To correct or improve (a deficiency or problem).
Mitigate
(transitive) To reduce, lessen, or decrease; to make less severe or easier to bear.
Remediate
Intended to correct or improve deficient skills in some subject.
Mitigate
(transitive) To downplay.
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Remediate
(obsolete) Remedial.
Mitigate
To make less severe, intense, harsh, rigorous, painful, etc.; to soften; to meliorate; to alleviate; to diminish; to lessen; as, to mitigate heat or cold; to mitigate grief.
Remediate
Remedial.
Mitigate
To make mild and accessible; to mollify; - applied to persons.
This opinion . . . mitigated kings into companions.
Remediate
Set straight or right;
Remedy these deficiencies
Rectify the inequities in salaries
Repair an oversight
Mitigate
Lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of;
The circumstances extenuate the crime
Mitigate
Make less severe or harsh;
Mitigating circumstances
