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Definition of Alleviate

Alleviate To lighten or lessen the force or weight of. To lighten or lessen (physical or mental troubles); to mitigate, or make easier to be endured; as, to alleviate sorrow, pain, care, etc. ; -- opposed to aggravate. To extenuate; to palliate. Related Definitions: Aggravate, Alleviate, As, Be, Care, Endured, Extenuate, Force, Lessen, Lighten, Make, Mental, Mitigate, Of, Opposed, Or, Pain, Palliate, Physical, Sorrow, The, To, Weight

Alleviate Quotations It seems to me morally a decent society will try to take some of the increased benefit and use that to alleviate the pain of the few who are bearing the cost that made it possible. Tim Bishop For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act. Paul Farmer My driver Kellie Frost and I would race these fellows home and they were always faster on the highway. We did the same with Daniel and his driver, and thus began a long series of jokes and competitions to alleviate the impossible hours and tensions this film provoked. Madeleine Stowe The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant them their political rights. Despairing of fair treatment, they resolved to do something for themselves. John L. Lewis If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit. Harold Bloom

Alleviate Translations alleviate in German is alleviate, lindern, mildern alleviate in Latin is relevo alleviate in Swedish is lindra, mildra

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