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Another word for alleviate

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alleviate

v.

lighten, mitigate, ease; see relieve 2. See syn. study at relieve.

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Another word for alleviate

verb

To make less severe or more bearable:

allay, assuage, comfort, ease, lessen, lighten², mitigate, palliate, relieve. See increase

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He put on his sunglasses, which did little to alleviate the headache sunlight gave him.
"It's supposed to alleviate bad moods," Dan said to Lana.
But he'd won her as Kisolm's younger brother, Romas, had decreed, which should alleviate any accusations brought on by their clan, if Kisolm's father talked some sense into the arrogant crown prince.
In 1901, after years of disastrous drought and famine, the government of India appointed a commission to examine throughout all India what could be done by irrigation to alleviate the horrors of famine.
On the journey he was deeply affected by the mournful fate of Marie-Antoinette, and resolved to do what he could to alleviate their sufferings.

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