Sample Sentences for
alleviate
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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 during this period I was busied in earnest endeavors to alleviate the melancholy of my friend.  (source)
    alleviate = to 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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    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
    standard 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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    We're friends, we work well together, we're dedicated to alleviating pain, and we're interested in each other's problems too.†  (source)
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    Since her pin money, which depended on the goodwill of her father, was only enough to keep her clothed, she was debarred from such alleviations as came even to Keats or Tennyson or Carlyle, all poor men, from a walking tour, a little journey to France, from the separate lodging which, even if it were miserable enough, sheltered them from the claims and tyrannies of their families.†  (source)
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    Maryland's Senate Alleviates Fears†  (source)
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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)
    standard 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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    My Son is at present making a tour of Private Mental Asylums and Clinics in Europe, an investigation very necessary to the work he is engaged upon - work of the utmost significance, which will alleviate human suffering,  (source)
    alleviate = decrease (lessen 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 bad
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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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