Alleviation

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  • n. the act of alleviating; relief or mitigation
  • n. the act of reducing pain or anything else unpleasant; easement
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of alleviating; a lightening of weight or severity; mitigation; relief.
  • n. That which mitigates, or makes more tolerable.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of alleviating, The act of removing in part, lessening, mitigating, or making easier to be endured: as, the alleviation of taxes. The act of making less by representation; extenuation: as, “alleviations of faults.” South.
  • n. That which lessens, mitigates, or makes more tolerable: as, the sympathy of a friend is an alleviation of grief.
  • n. Synonyms Mitigation, palliation, relief.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced
  • n. the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance)
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    comfort   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    mitigation    relief   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Alsatian    Americanization    Appalachian    Balkanization    Christianization   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    mitigation    aggravation    palliation    amelioration    abatement   
     
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