alleviative
Americanadjective
noun
Other Word Forms
- unalleviative adjective
Etymology
Origin of alleviative
Example Sentences
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It is as tender a tribute to the alleviative power of friendship as I can imagine.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 20, 2017
A few days before the end, an alleviative operation was performed.
From Time Magazine Archive
The duty-free importation af considerable quantities of frozen meat constitutes an alleviative measure for the consumers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Also they had been promised a solution of the noise mystery and was not that in itself sufficient alleviative?
From Jane Allen, Junior by Bancroft, Edith
"I have been bronchitic and asthmatic for twenty years, and have never known an alleviative so immediately efficacious as 'Anisette.'"
From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by Fernie, William Thomas
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