Both Uses
alleviate
in
The Fall of the House of Usher
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- The writer spoke of acute bodily illness—of a mental disorder which oppressed him—and of an earnest desire to see me, as his best, and indeed his only personal friend, with a view of attempting, by the cheerfulness of my society, some alleviation of his malady.†
alleviation = something that lessens something that is bad; or an instance of lessening something that is bad
- ...and during this period I was busied in earnest endeavors to alleviate the melancholy of my friend.
*alleviate = to lessen something that is bad
Definitions:
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(1)
(alleviate) to lessen something that is bad -- especially to lessen pain
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)