English > alleviate: 2 senses > verb 1, body| Meaning | Provide physical relief, as from pain. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s something |
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| Synonyms | relieve, palliate, assuage |
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| Narrower | comfort, ease | lessen pain or discomfort |
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| soothe | Cause to feel better |
| Broader | better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate | To make better |
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| Spanish | aliviar, apaciguar, mitigar, paliar, salvar, suavizar |
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| Catalan | alleugerir, alleujar, apaivagar, mitigar, salvar, suavitzar |
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| Adjectives | alleviative, alleviatory | moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear |
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| Nouns | alleviant, alleviator | remedy that alleviates pain without curing |
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| alleviation | the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance) |
| alleviation | the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced |
| alleviator | a therapist who makes suffering more endurable |
