How to say "mitigate" in Japanese

• 減ずるげんずる
  ichidan verb (-zuru), transitive verbCovers 'mitigate' in the sense of lessening the severity of harm or damage, such as reducing the impact of a loss. Essentially 'to reduce or lessen'; a less common choice for 'mitigate'.
• 減じるげんじる
  ichidan verb, transitive verbA variant form of the same verb as 減ずる, covering 'mitigate' as lessening harm or damage — for instance, the impact of a loss. Essentially 'to reduce or lessen'; a less common choice for 'mitigate'.
  あなたの欠点けってんでさえも私のあなたに対たいする尊敬そんけいの気持きもちを減げんじはしないし、友情ゆうじょうにおいてはこれが大切たいせつなことです。↗

  Even your faults do not lessen my respect for you, and in friendship this is what counts.

Both verbs translate 'mitigate' through the same basic sense of lessening or reducing something, and both are less common choices; as they are the same verb in two forms, the choice between them is one of form, not meaning.

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• 減ずるげんずるto reduce
• 減じるげんじるto reduce