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means The act of reducing the severity, harm, or impact of something bad, often through deliberate action taken in advance or in the moment.

from From Latin mitigare, 'to make mild or ripe,' built from mitis ('soft, mild, gentle') plus agere ('to do, to drive, to act'). The same mitis root gives us 'mild.' So at its linguistic core, mitigation is simply the act of softening something — Latin's own gentle word for damage control.