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Regular massage will help to alleviate the pain.alleviate = lessen
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She wants to save the planet and alleviate poverty at the same time.
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Where was someone to alleviate this robbery of his life? (source)alleviate = soothe
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I decide to take care of his upper body first, to alleviate some pain, before I tackle whatever damage Cato did to his leg. (source)alleviate = lessen (something that is bad)
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And that was how Baba ended those humiliating food stamp moments at the cash register and alleviated one of his greatest fears: that an Afghan would see him buying food with charity money. (source)alleviated = reduced something that is bad
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He had been so sure that Sirius's reply would alleviate his worries rather than increasing them. (source)alleviate = lessen (something that is bad)
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The lights inside were bright, but they did little to alleviate the blackness of the encroaching forest. (source)alleviate = lessen (especially something bad)
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Towards dawn his brother became serener. (For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?) (source)alleviation = to lessen something that is badstandard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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There had been a great deal of concern that he might lapse into a long-term coma, but his wakening had alleviated all the worry. (source)alleviated = lessened (reduced)
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Someone mentioned the usefulness of marijuana in alleviating glaucoma, and someone else mentioned it was helpful for those with MS, too, and then there was a frenetic exchange between three family members of MS patients, and Mae, feeling some darkness opening its wings within her, signed off.† (source)alleviating = reducing something bad
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Mr. Tulliver walked abruptly out of the arbor as he uttered the last sentence, and, without looking round at Mr. Moss, went on to the kitchen door, where the eldest boy was holding his horse, and his sister was waiting in a state of wondering alarm, which was not without its alleviations, for baby was making pleasant gurgling sounds, and performing a great deal of finger practice on the faded face.† (source)alleviations = instances of lessening something that is bad
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Maryland's Senate Alleviates Fears† (source)Alleviates = reduces something that is bad
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In less violent form, in subtle digs and supercilious little drawing-room slanders, Southerners who had ventured north were to endure such exploitative assaults upon their indwelling guilt during an era of unalleviated discomfort which ended officially on a morning in August, 1963, when on North Water Street in Edgartown, Massachusetts, the youngish, straw-haired, dimple-kneed wife of the yacht-club commodore, a prominent Brahmin investment banker, was seen brandishing a copy of James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time as she uttered to a friend, in tones of clamp-jawed desolation, these words: "My dear, it's going to happen to all of us!"† (source)unalleviated = not made betterstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unalleviated means not and reverses the meaning of alleviated. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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Lourdes's boyfriend tries to find a way to alleviate the sadness he sees in Lourdes. (source)alleviate = lessen (something that is bad)
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habit brought—no, not alleviation—but a certain callousness of soul, a certain acquiescence of despair; (source)alleviation = lessening of pain
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Sarah served, carrying on a babbling conversation which alleviated the need for either adult to speak to the other. (source)alleviated = to lessen something that is bad -- especially pain
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