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Definition of alleviating : of Alleviate

Synonyms:

lightening, unloading

mitigating, reducing, lessening, palliating, allaying

comforting, helping, aiding, remedying, curing, assuaging, appeasing, relieving, consoling, lulling

relaxing, restraining, abating, composing, pacifying, calming, quieting, moderating, cooling, soothing, easing, subduing, tranquilizing, softening

Usage examples:

• And when you add to this more than a quarter of a century, every waking hour of which has been spent in alleviating the stammerer's difficulty- and successfully, too- you have a ground- work of first- hand information that tends toward facts instead of fiction and toward practice instead of theory. - "Stammering, Its Cause and Cure", Benjamin Nathaniel Bogue.
• We expect much of the recent forced enthusiasm to die down, while scopolamin- morphin anesthesia takes it proper place among other scientific methods of alleviating the pangs of labor. - "The Mother and Her Child", William S. Sadler Lena K. Sadler.
• At the same time he complained that by reason of the dilatoriness of the states, he was prevented from alleviating misery when he knew the remedy to be within reach. - "Project Gutenberg History of The Netherlands, 1555-1623, Complete", John Lothrop Motley.