"put it mildly" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "puts it mildly",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "putting it mildly",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put it mildly",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put it mildly",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "put<,,put> it mildly"
      },
      "expansion": "put it mildly (third-person singular simple present puts it mildly, present participle putting it mildly, simple past and past participle put it mildly)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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        },
        {
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          "parents": [],
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "to put it mildly",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "That's putting it mildly!",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 March 5, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 7-0 Manchester United”, in BBC Sport",
          "text": "His players responded. Wolverhampton Wanderers were beaten at Anfield and United, to put it mildly, outclassed.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To state without exaggeration; to understate, to state in euphemistic terms."
      ],
      "id": "en-put_it_mildly-en-verb-gUwkG8-T",
      "links": [
        [
          "euphemistic",
          "euphemistic"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "to put it another way"
        },
        {
          "word": "not to put too fine a point on it"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "put it mildly"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "puts it mildly",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "putting it mildly",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put it mildly",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put it mildly",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "put<,,put> it mildly"
      },
      "expansion": "put it mildly (third-person singular simple present puts it mildly, present participle putting it mildly, simple past and past participle put it mildly)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "to put it another way"
    },
    {
      "word": "not to put too fine a point on it"
    }
  ],
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    {
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English sentence adverbs",
        "English terms with collocations",
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        "English terms with placeholder \"it\"",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "to put it mildly",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "That's putting it mildly!",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 March 5, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 7-0 Manchester United”, in BBC Sport",
          "text": "His players responded. Wolverhampton Wanderers were beaten at Anfield and United, to put it mildly, outclassed.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To state without exaggeration; to understate, to state in euphemistic terms."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "euphemistic",
          "euphemistic"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "put it mildly"
}