All 3 Uses of
alleviate
in
Selected Tales, by Poe
- Yet although the external abbey, with its verdant decay hanging about it, suffered but little alteration, I gave way, with a child-like perversity, and perchance with a faint hope of alleviating my sorrows, to a display of more than regal magnificence within.†
Scene 1 *alleviating = reducing something bad
- 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.†
Scene 3alleviation = something that lessens something that is bad; or an instance of lessening something that is bad
- For several days ensuing, her name was unmentioned by either Usher or myself: and during this period I was busied in earnest endeavors to alleviate the melancholy of my friend.†
Scene 3
Definition:
to lessen something that is bad -- especially to lessen pain