Lower and Mitigate

Lower

Lower verb - To cause to fall intentionally or unintentionally.

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Mitigate and lower are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Mitigate" instead a verb "Lower".

Nearby Words: lowered, lowering, lowermost, lowercase

Mitigate verb - To make more bearable or less severe.

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Lower and mitigate are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Lower" instead a verb "Mitigate".

reputation	lower reputation	mitigate reputation
amount	lower amount	mitigate amount
factor	lower factor	mitigate factor
bit	lower bit	mitigate bit
Other words: game, threat, points, problems.

Recently added was more experience for a champion of a lower level killing a champion of a higher level - which helps mitigate that aspect a bit.

Source: Comeback Mechanic
While revolvers have better stopping power than semi-automatics, they're louder and are incapable of mounting suppressors to mitigate that fact, have a lower ammunition capacity, slower reload time and, with one exception, can't be dual wielded.

Source: Video Game / Hitman
Luckily, to mitigate this trope, the game tries to provide missions spread over your follower levels, so that the lower-level ones can catch up, or even be paired with higher-level followers to increase mission success chance.

Source: Can't Catch Up

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