alleviate

[Al*le·vi*ate]

Do all these words make your head ache? If so, take an aspirin to alleviate, or relieve, your pain.

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To lighten or lessen the force or weight of.

Verb
provide physical relief, as from pain; "This pill will relieve your headaches"

Verb
make easier; "you could facilitate the process by sharing your knowledge"

v. t.
To lighten or lessen the force or weight of.

v. t.
To lighten or lessen (physical or mental troubles); to mitigate, or make easier to be endured; as, to alleviate sorrow, pain, care, etc. ; -- opposed to aggravate.

v. t.
To extenuate; to palliate.

Alleviate

Al*le"vi*ate , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Alleviated; p. pr. & vb. n. Alleviating.] [LL. alleviare, fr. L. ad + levis light. See Alegge, Levity.] 1. To lighten or lessen the force or weight of. [Obs.]

Should no others join capable to alleviate the expense.

Those large bladders . . . conduce much to the alleviating of the body [of flying birds].

2. To lighten or lessen (physical or mental troubles); to mitigate, or make easier to be endured; as, to alleviate sorrow, pain, care, etc. ; -- opposed to aggravate.

The calamity of the want of the sense of hearing is much alleviated by giving the use of letters.

3. To extenuate; to palliate. [R.]

He alleviates his fault by an excuse.

Syn. -- To lessen; diminish; soften; mitigate; assuage; abate; relieve; nullify; allay. -- To Alleviate, Mitigate, Assuage, Allay. These words have in common the idea of relief from some painful state; and being all figurative, they differ in their application, according to the image under which this idea is presented. Alleviate supposes a load which is lightened or taken off; as, to alleviate one's cares. Mitigate supposes something fierce which is made mild; as, to mitigate one's anguish. Assuage supposes something violent which is quieted; as, to assuage one's sorrow. Allay supposes something previously excited, but now brought down; as, to allay one's suffering or one's thirst. To alleviate the distresses of life; to mitigate the fierceness of passion or the violence of grief; to assuage angry feeling; to allay wounded sensibility.

To lighten or lessen the force or weight of.

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A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.

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