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Dictionary Results For "alleviation" [?]/[OPML]

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English

Pronunciation

IPA: /əˌliːviˈeɪʃən/,
:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-eɪʃǝn|-eɪʃǝn

Noun

the act of alleviate|alleviating; relief or mitigation
the act of reducing pain or anything else unpleasant; easement

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Alleviation \Al*le`vi*a"tion\, n. [LL. alleviatio.]
1. The act of alleviating; a lightening of weight or
severity; mitigation; relief.
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2. That which mitigates, or makes more tolerable.
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I have not wanted such alleviations of life as
friendship could supply. --Johnson.
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WordNet alleviation
n 1: the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed
or reduced; "as he heard the news he was suddenly
flooded with relief" [syn: relief, assuagement]
2: the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or
annoyance); "he asked the nurse for relief from the
constant pain" [syn: easing, easement, relief]

Moby Dictionary
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