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
As we went up the beautiful, open-work alleviator, I felt, oh, that this thing was swinging me off to Jonesville, acrost the waste of sea and land.
From Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife by Holley, Marietta
When the nation was stupefied with the miasma of human slavery, Lincoln, the alleviator, broke its horrid spell by diffusing through the fire of war the sweet incense of liberty.
From Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time by Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore
Good humor is a great alleviator of bodily privation.
From The Monikins by Cooper, James Fenimore
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