alleviate
- to make easier to endure; lessen; mitigate: to alleviate sorrow; to alleviate pain.
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Contemporary Examples of alleviated
For example, back pain can be alleviated by strong glutes—a result of squatting and deadlifting.
A danger not alleviated by a Russian decision to supply President Bashar al-Assad with a new advanced air defense system.
“The short-term pressures might have alleviated, but the longer-term pressures are still with us,” she said.
Historical Examples of alleviated
One thing occurred on this sad bereavement which alleviated it a little.
MemoirsCharles Godfrey Leland
Horam was rather more distressed than alleviated by her protestations.
I can assure you that the plight of the downtrodden workers will be alleviated.
Gambler's WorldJohn Keith Laumer
He composed such incantations also by which distempers are alleviated.
The Antiquities of the JewsFlavius Josephus
This fate could only be alleviated by the education and elevation of women.
A Little Journey in the WorldCharles Dudley Warner
alleviate
- (tr) to make (pain, sorrow, etc) easier to bear; lessen; relieve