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- Dictionaryalleviate/əˈliːvɪeɪt/
verb
- 1. make (suffering, deficiency, or a problem) less severe: "he couldn't prevent her pain, only alleviate it"
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ALLEVIATE definition: 1. to make something bad such as pain or problems less severe: 2. to make something bad such as…. Learn more.
The meaning of ALLEVIATE is relieve, lessen. How to use alleviate in a sentence. Where does the word alleviate come from? Synonym Discussion of Alleviate.
Alleviate definition: to make easier to endure; lessen; mitigate. See examples of ALLEVIATE used in a sentence.
ALLEVIATE meaning: 1. to make something bad such as pain or problems less severe: 2. to make something bad such as…. Learn more.
If you alleviate pain, suffering, or an unpleasant condition, you make it less intense or severe.
Synonyms for ALLEVIATE: relieve, help, mitigate, soothe, ease, soften, allay, assuage; Antonyms of ALLEVIATE: hurt, impair, harm, exacerbate, aggravate, injure, intensify, heighten
The verb, alleviate, stems from the Latin root, levis "light" and is related to modern English words such as elevator and levitate — both words implying a lightening of one's load. Alleviate also has this sense of lightening a burden such as physical pain or emotional duress.
1. To make (pain, for example) less intense or more bearable: a drug that alleviates cold symptoms. See Synonyms at relieve. 2. To lessen or reduce: alleviate unemployment. [Middle English alleviaten, from Late Latin alleviāre, alleviāt-, to lighten : Latin ad-, ad- + levis, light; see leg w h- in Indo-European roots .] al·le′vi·a′tion n.
alleviate something to make something less severe synonym ease. to alleviate suffering; A number of measures were taken to alleviate the problem.
to make problems or suffering less extreme: She's been given some tablets to alleviate the pain. alleviation. noun [ U ] uk / əˌliːviˈeɪʃ ə n / us. (Definition of alleviate from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Translations of alleviate. in Chinese (Traditional) 減輕, 緩和，緩解… See more. in Chinese (Simplified) 减轻, 缓和，缓解…
