alleviator
Americannoun
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a person or thing that alleviates.
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(in a pipeline) an airtight box, having a free liquid surface, for cushioning the shock of water hammer.
Etymology
Origin of alleviator
Example Sentences
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Major, a professor of social mobility at the University of Exeter, added: "The reality is that a teacher these days is a counsellor, a social worker, a poverty alleviator and a guardian of respectful values."
From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026
Most of the air-quality improvement came overnight into Friday, with rain acting as a final alleviator.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 21, 2022
Months passed before the captain's equanimity became restored; but time, the alleviator of sorrow and best soother of a turbulent spirit, brought a favourable change.
From The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales by Grant, James, archaeologist
It is to be used as a great alleviator of human suffering in lowering and regulating the temperature of hospitals in hot weather, and in surgical operations as a substitute for an�sthetics and cauterising agents.
From Inventions in the Century by Doolittle, William Henry
Good humor is a great alleviator of bodily privation.
From The Monikins by Cooper, James Fenimore
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