alleviation

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alleviation
n. soothing, relief; easing, lessening


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alleviation
Noun
1. the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced; "as he heard the news he was suddenly flooded with relief"
(synonym) relief, assuagement
(hypernym) comfort
(derivation) relieve, alleviate, palliate, assuage
2. the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance); "he asked the nurse for relief from the constant pain"
(synonym) easing, easement, relief
(hypernym) decrease, diminution, reduction, step-down
(hyponym) spasmolysis
(derivation) relieve, alleviate, palliate, assuage



Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)Download this dictionary
Alleviation
(n.)
The act of alleviating; a lightening of weight or severity; mitigation; relief.
  
 
(n.)
That which mitigates, or makes more tolerable.
  

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alleviation
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alleviation
Synonyms and related words:
abatement, abridgment, allayment, analgesia, anesthesia, anesthetizing, appeasement, assuagement, attenuation, blunting, calming, contraction, dampening, damping, deadening, decrease, decrement, decrescence, deduction, deflation, demulsion, depreciation, depression, diminishment, diminution, disburdening, disencumberment, dulcification, dulling, dying, dying off, ease, easement, easing, extenuation, fade-out, falling-off, hushing, languishment, leniency, lessening, letdown, letup, lightening, loosening, lowering, lulling, miniaturization, mitigation, modulation, mollification, numbing, pacification, palliation, quietening, quieting, reduction, relaxation, relief, remedy, remission, sagging, salving, scaling down, simplicity, slackening, softening, soothing, subduement, subtraction, tempering, tranquilization, unballasting, unburdening, unfreighting, unlading, unloading, unsaddling, untaxing, weakening,
  

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