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Word Meanings - ALLEVIATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To lighten or lessen the force or weight of. Should no others join capable to alleviate the expense. Evelyn. Those large bladders . . . conduce much to the alleviating of the body . Ray. 2. To lighten or lessen ; to mitigate, or make easier

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1. To lighten or lessen the force or weight of. Should no others join capable to alleviate the expense. Evelyn. Those large bladders . . . conduce much to the alleviating of the body . Ray. 2. To lighten or lessen ; 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. Bp. Horsley. 3. To extenuate; to palliate. He alleviates his fault by an excuse. Johnson. 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.

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    Abounding with support. Chapman.
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