"mitigation" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /mɪtɪˈɡeɪʃən/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-mitigation.wav [US] Forms: mitigations [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪʃən Etymology: From Middle French mitigation, from Latin mitigatio. Etymology templates: {{der|en|frm|mitigation}} Middle French mitigation, {{der|en|la|mitigatio}} Latin mitigatio Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} mitigation (countable and uncountable, plural mitigations)
  1. A reduction or decrease of something harmful or unpleasant. Tags: countable, uncountable Related terms: mitigate, mitigating, mitigant Translations (reduction of something harmful): تخفيف (Arabic), আসান (aśan) (Bengali), облекчение (oblekčenie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), уталожване (utaložvane) [neuter] (Bulgarian), mitigació [feminine] (Catalan), opluchting [feminine] (Dutch), verlichting (Dutch), lieventäminen (Finnish), lievennys (Finnish), hillitseminen (Finnish), soulagement [masculine] (French), Erleichterung (German), Abmilderung [feminine] (German), mitigasi (Indonesian), riduzione [feminine] (Italian), contenimento [masculine] (Italian), attenuazione [feminine] (Italian), mitigação [feminine] (Portuguese), смягчение (smjaxčenije) [neuter] (Russian), уменьшение (umenʹšenije) [neuter] (Russian), облегчение (oblexčenije) [neuter] (Russian), ublažavanje (Serbo-Croatian), taženje (Serbo-Croatian), utaživanje (Serbo-Croatian), olakšavanje (Serbo-Croatian), olakšanje (Serbo-Croatian), mitigacija (Serbo-Croatian), mitigación [feminine] (Spanish), förmildrande omständighet (Swedish), lindring [common-gender] (Swedish), تخفیف (Urdu), sự làm nhẹ (Vietnamese), sự làm dịu (Vietnamese), sự giảm thiểu (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-mitigation-en-noun-nXMNqMYS Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Urdu terms with redundant script codes

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