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alleviate English

Meaning alleviate meaning

What does alleviate mean?
Definitions in simple English

alleviate Verb

— If you alleviate pain, suffering, or an unpleasant condition, you make it less intense or severe. Nowadays, a great deal can be done to alleviate back pain.

alleviate

— verb (= relieve) provide physical relief, as from pain This pill will relieve your headaches — verb (= facilitate) make easier you could facilitate the process by sharing your knowledge

Synonyms alleviate synonyms

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alleviate English » English

relieve ease mitigate allay soothe assuage palliate lessen lighten reduce facilitate abate moderate remove remit pacify have little to do diminish soften lull dispel decrease attenuate appease weaken vindicate unburden temper subdue still solace slow down release relaxation relax quiet quench pleasing pleasant plaster patch up offset mollify mince make lighter make easy make easier lower liberate let up

Topics alleviate topics

What do people use alleviate to talk about?
Person Healthy Symptom of disease

Pain
Person Healthy

Treat disease
Social behavior Prosperity, trouble Respond to someone in trouble

Relief
States Quantity More

Decrease

Conjugation alleviate conjugation

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alleviate · verb

Examples alleviate examples

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Simple sentences

When I have migraines, aspirin doesn't alleviate the pain for me.
I reckon the only aim of science is to alleviate the hardships of human existence.
This medicine will alleviate the pain.

Movie subtitles

Would you alleviate my suffering and give me a little vodka?
A psychic shock which creates an almost overwhelming tension which the person in shock must alleviate.
Nothing has happened to alleviate the crisis.
Out of respect for the man, we should fight against this ugliness, to alleviate this suffering.
Suffering is an evil we must be rid of, or at least alleviate.
Suffering is a great evil and we must try to alleviate it.
We will do everything possible to alleviate your suffering.
Enid, this may not be the best moment to talk about this, but, uh, it may alleviate some of your other worries.
I can, of course, recommend certain diets, prescribe medication to alleviate the pain, the nausea. What kind of work do you do, Mr. Fiore?
She will soon learn, the only thing to alleviate her discomfort. is her utterly correct responses to my commands and the sound of this whistle.
Believe me, your sincere confession will help to alleviate your lot.
In 1930, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, in an effort to alleviate the effects of the.
Lime leaves in the bath are always used to alleviate pain.
I would guess that death is no longer sufficient to alleviate its boredom.
That's one of the things I hope the formula will alleviate.
This will not alleviate our hunger.
Now, in cases of this kind, i try to examine the problems and then alleviate them.
Yeah, well, uh, let's get down to business, shall we? Now, in cases of this kind, i try to examine the problems and then alleviate them.
Would you seriously refuse to do all you can to alleviate the state of physical squalor and blind moral misery in which your own people lie?
Would that alleviate your conscience?
Let them not alleviate the problem, to go.
I did that to alleviate the remorse I feel.
Of course, here I have the antidote and if you can talk, a simple injection will alleviate all discomfort.
And it will perhaps alleviate the agony of your death.
That would alleviate any lingering guilt feelings you have. Of course it's only a theory.
Prince, I can't believe it Are you seriously refusing to do whatever possible to alleviate the material poverty and blind moral misery in which Sicilians lie?
For those who haven't experienced the charms of an African woman. these two women were made to alleviate your lonely hours.
I had to go to the doctor again last night, and he prescribed for me and gave me some pills to alleviate the pain.
I would be happy to become the wife of an outcast if it could only alleviate your suffering.
At the same time, your going will alleviate my pain.
For several days ensuing, her name was unmentioned by either Usher or myself and during this period I endeavoured to alleviate the melancholy of my friend.
Alleviate suffering, make us enjoy it or something, you know.
Pardon me for intervening, sir, but perhaps it would alleviate the ethical pressure if I were to open the communication and read it out.
Perhaps if you told me what has made you feel this way it would alleviate the guilt.
It might alleviate some of the stress I'm feeling.
A Caesar, I think. I'm only trying to alleviate my boredom.
This should alleviate Kira's sneezing.

News and current affairs

So, given that Germany will be picking up many more bills (regardless of whether the eurozone survives), how can it best use the strength of its balance sheet to alleviate Europe's growth problems?
Private oversight can often produce better and more efficient construction, and, in theory, toll roads help alleviate traffic congestion.
In 1993, after the Oslo agreements, the Palestinian Authority established under Yasir Arafat became another militarized authoritarian regime, very much like Syria and Egypt, and did nothing to alleviate the suffering of the Palestinian refugees.
Meanwhile, France and other EU countries should help Germany, Austria, Sweden, Hungary, and Slovenia to alleviate the refugee crisis by accepting a quota system.
For starters, it could alleviate the social hardship that will arise when the price for heating alone exceeds household income.
What matters at any point in time is to alleviate a society's immediate binding constraints - another reason why different policies are needed for different places.
Instead, a representative of President Putin must oversee everything in Chechnya: economic development, military action, and efforts to alleviate the suffering of the Chechen population.
Yes, higher taxes on the wealthy make sense as a way to alleviate inequality within a country.
Funding from the EU and from member states has helped to alleviate suffering, while compassionate community-building efforts by European individuals and organizations have highlighted the true closeness of all who share a common Mediterranean history.
Non-believers often have as strong and sound a sense of right and wrong as anyone, and have worked to abolish slavery and contributed to other efforts to alleviate human suffering.
The Iraqi refugees are a crisis that cannot be ignored: the international community must alleviate the burden on the countries in the region, while offering resettlement opportunities to many more of the most vulnerable Iraqis.
The fact that Karzai is decent and well intentioned does not alleviate his problem, which he is incapable of addressing alone.
Our failure to alleviate their plight is morally reprehensible.
The remedy I have in mind, of course, is faster economic growth - the one thing that can raise living standards, reduce excessive inequalities, improve job prospects, alleviate trade tensions, and even moderate geopolitical pressures.
A debt buyback is something of a Catch 22: to succeed in inducing a haircut, it needs to profit from the default fears that it intends to alleviate.
But treatments based on these diagnoses did not alleviate the children's symptoms.
At both the micro and the macro level, development projects and economic growth can do much to alleviate some of the structural causes of political violence.
In Europe, many influential leaders and citizens still view the marketplace as constrained by moral considerations, such as the need to alleviate economic suffering.
An improved system could help alleviate the burden imposed on innocent victims of the financial and economic downturn.
Raising rates could alleviate those fears, increasing consumer confidence and spending.
Every year, India struggles to reconcile the irreconcilable: stimulate economic growth and investment, alleviate endemic poverty, and feed a ravenous military appetite.
Rapid economic growth in developing countries is helping to alleviate poverty.
In the face of such staggering numbers, commitments to take thousands or even tens of thousands of people will do almost nothing to alleviate the misery of millions.

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