Crossword-Solution: ALLEVIATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Alleviate | v. t. | To lighten or lessen the force or weight of. |
| Alleviate | v. t. | 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. |
| Alleviate | v. t. | To extenuate; to palliate. |
We have 67 clues for the answer “ALLEVIATE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Make easier to bear | 1 answer |
| Make suffering, etc., easier to bear | 1 answer |
| REGULATE by easing | 1 answer |
| Lessen, as pain | 2 answers |
| Lighten the load | 2 answers |
| Lessen the pain | 2 answers |
| Relieve pain without getting rid of the cause | 4 answers |
| Relieve pain, grief, or the like to bring comfort | 4 answers |
| COMPLICATE (ant.) | 8 answers |
| ENKINDLE (ant.) | 10 answers |
| make less severe | 14 answers |
| Take the edge off | 16 answers |
| illume | 17 answers |
| Disen-cumber | 22 answers |
| extricate | 24 answers |
| Palliate | 26 answers |
| Lighten | 26 answers |
| MOVE gently | 30 answers |
| Unload | 30 answers |
| pillow | 31 answers |
| Relieve | 33 answers |
| Appease | 35 answers |
| MAKE comfortable | 36 answers |
| Cushion | 38 answers |
| Disburden | 38 answers |
| stabilise | 39 answers |
| Shine | 41 answers |
| Elucidate | 43 answers |
| MAKE less dense | 44 answers |
| Allay | 45 answers |
| Soothe | 46 answers |
| Assuage | 46 answers |
| Unburden | 47 answers |
| Soften | 48 answers |
| Mitigate | 50 answers |
| Abate | 51 answers |
| inspirit | 55 answers |
| meliorate | 55 answers |
| MAKE lighter | 57 answers |
| Gleam | 57 answers |
| clear up | 58 answers |
| Dazzle | 59 answers |
| untie | 59 answers |
| Glow | 59 answers |
| Reveal | 60 answers |
| Make amends | 60 answers |
| Refresh | 62 answers |
| Deaden | 63 answers |
| Disentangle | 64 answers |
| Lessen | 64 answers |
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Sentences with ALLEVIATE (5)
There is a growing trend for UUCP sites to register Internet domain names, to help alleviate the problem of path failures.
Additional links are planned to alleviate this congestion, but the implementation will take a few months.
This helps alleviate the problem of path failures.) Some messages must be routed through many gateways to reach their destination.
And how did our poor Charlotte pass her time during a tedious and tempestuous passage? naturally delicate, the fatigue and sickness which she endured rendered her so weak as to be almost entirely confined to her bed: yet the kindness and attention of Montraville in some measure contributed to alleviate her sufferings, and the hope of hearing from her friends soon after her arrival, kept up her spirits, and cheered many a gloomy hour.
MIFFLIN--Your doctrine is pitiless, base, and false! What would you think of a physician who saw men suffering from a curable disease and did nothing to alleviate their sufferings? GLADFIST--Their sufferings (as you call them) are nothing to what mine would be if I stocked up with a lot of books that no one but highbrows would buy.
Quotes with ALLEVIATE (3)
It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one's germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!
If we are in a general way permitted to regard human activity in the realm of the beautiful as a liberation of the soul, as a release from constraint and restriction, in short to consider that art does actually alleviate the most overpowering and tragic catastrophes by means of the creations it offers to our contemplation and enjoyment, it is the art of music which conducts us to the final summit of that ascent to freedom.
As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what more civilized way for people to alleviate the same than by giving themselves to one another as brothers and sisters in deed as well as in word? A society of people hoping to become politically superior needed first to become spiritually valid.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, LAT, Newsday, NYT, The Atlantic, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 13 times in crossword archives (1971–2021).