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Alleviate: Definition and part of speech

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Alleviate

  1. v. t. To extenuate; to palliate.
  2. v. t. To lighten or lessen the force or weight of.
  3. v. t. To lighten or lessen (physical or mental troubles); to mitigate, or make easier to be endured; as, to alleviate sorrow, pain, care, etc. ; — opposed to aggravate.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Alleviation: Definition and part of speech

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Alleviation

  1. n. That which mitigates, or makes more tolerable.
  2. n. The act of alleviating; a lightening of weight or severity; mitigation; relief.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.