Sample sentences for ALLEVIATE

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Definition

to lessen something that is bad — especially to lessen pain

Regular massage will help to alleviate the pain.

alleviate = lessen

She wants to save the planet and alleviate poverty at the same time.

alleviate = lessen

May seemed to be aware of his disappointment, but without knowing how to alleviate it; and they stood up and walked silently home.
Wharton, Edith -- The Age of Innocence

alleviate = lessen

If nothing else, it alleviated the pain of simply watching.
Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief

alleviated = reduced

It was stunning to Mariam how quickly alleviating hunger became the crux of their existence.
Khaled Hosseini -- A Thousand Splendid Suns

alleviating = lessening something bad

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.
Khaled Hosseini -- The Kite Runner

alleviated = reduced something that is bad

habit brought—no, not alleviation—but a certain callousness of soul, a certain acquiescence of despair;
Robert Louis Stevenson -- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

alleviation = lessening of pain

(editor's note: 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.)

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.
William P. Young -- The Shack

alleviated = lessened (reduced)

The mansion was eerily quiet, with only the fizzle of the last few solinium flares to alleviate the stillness.
Eoin Colfer -- Artemis Fowl

alleviate = lessen or make less severe (something that is bad)

Lourdes's boyfriend tries to find a way to alleviate the sadness he sees in Lourdes.
Sonia Nazario -- Enrique's Journey

alleviate = lessen (something that is bad)

The lights inside were bright, but they did little to alleviate the blackness of the encroaching forest.
Stephenie Meyer -- Twilight

alleviate = lessen (especially something bad)

I decide to take care of his upper body first, to alleviate some pain, before I tackle whatever damage Cato did to his leg.
Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games

alleviate = lessen (something that is bad)

...she wasn't even attempting to alleviate my concerns.
Nicholas Sparks -- Dear John

alleviate = lessen

The colony is working to alleviate this problem with the nectar, as it puts a world of hurt on the potential for export.
J.D. Robb -- Immortal in Death

alleviate = to lessen something that is bad

Honour to those indefatigable spirits who consecrate their vigils to the amelioration or to the alleviation of their kind!
Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary

alleviation = diminishing of bad

Sarah served, carrying on a babbling conversation which alleviated the need for either adult to speak to the other.
Nora Roberts -- Summer Pleasures

alleviated = to lessen something that is bad — especially pain

Towards dawn his brother became serener. (For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?)
Thornton Wilder -- The Bridge of San Luis Rey

alleviation = to lessen something that is bad

Small periods of socialization are granted to alleviate the tedium.
Suzanne Collins -- Mockingjay

alleviate = decrease (lessen something that is bad)

...and during this period I was busied in earnest endeavors to alleviate the melancholy of my friend.
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Fall of the House of Usher

alleviate = to lessen something that is bad

He had been so sure that Sirius's reply would alleviate his worries rather than increasing them.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

alleviate = lessen (something that is bad)

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