Crossword-Solution: ALLEVIATION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Alleviation | n. | The act of alleviating; a lightening of weight or severity; mitigation; relief. |
| Alleviation | n. | That which mitigates, or makes more tolerable. |
We have 68 clues for the answer “ALLEVIATION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Painkiller's job | 1 answer |
| truce | 59 answers |
| restfulness | 59 answers |
| objectivity | 59 answers |
| mitigation | 60 answers |
| pacification | 60 answers |
| easement | 61 answers |
| reconciliation | 61 answers |
| neutrality | 61 answers |
| amnesty | 62 answers |
| appeasement | 62 answers |
| exemption | 63 answers |
| Entente | 63 answers |
| retard | 64 answers |
| Accommodation | 65 answers |
| Impartiality | 65 answers |
| candour | 65 answers |
| Easing | 65 answers |
| Liberation | 65 answers |
| ARMISTICE ___ | 66 answers |
| Deliverance | 66 answers |
| amity | 66 answers |
| Standstill | 66 answers |
| placidity | 67 answers |
| fairness | 68 answers |
| deferment | 68 answers |
| Lull | 68 answers |
| stillness | 68 answers |
| remission | 69 answers |
| peacefulness | 69 answers |
| probity | 69 answers |
| rectitude | 70 answers |
| Acquittal | 71 answers |
| Relaxation | 71 answers |
| Postponement | 71 answers |
| Reprieve | 72 answers |
| suspension | 73 answers |
| moderation | 73 answers |
| Friendliness | 73 answers |
| Intermission | 74 answers |
| Repose | 75 answers |
| respite | 76 answers |
| Calmness | 76 answers |
| modification | 76 answers |
| Freedom | 77 answers |
| Cessation | 77 answers |
| Reduction | 78 answers |
| equality | 78 answers |
| CONCORD ___ | 78 answers |
| Recess | 78 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with ALLEVIATION (5)
However, _I_ shall always think it a very pleasant party, and feel extremely obliged to the kind friends who included me in it.” “Miss Fairfax, I suppose, though you were not aware of it, had been making up her mind the whole day?” “I dare say she had.” “Whenever the time may come, it must be unwelcome to her and all her friends—but I hope her engagement will have every alleviation that is possible—I mean, as to the character and manners of the family.” “Thank you, dear Miss Woodhouse.
Oftentimes when a considerable alleviation of this unhappiness could have been obtained at the expense of a nickel or a dime, Trina refused the money with a pettishness that was exasperating.
Having finally discovered that the seat adjoining Miss Bart’s was at her disposal, she possessed herself of it with a farther displacement of her surroundings, explaining meanwhile that she had come across from Mount Kisco in her motor-car that morning, and had been kicking her heels for an hour at Garrisons, without even the alleviation of a cigarette, her brute of a husband having neglected to replenish her case before they parted that morning.
Good, bad, and indifferent, there was one alleviation to the annoyance of these visitors; for it was the practice of almost all to purchase some specimen of our rude handiwork.
Nevertheless, there is a certain frame of mind to which a cemetery is, if not an antidote, at least an alleviation.
Quotes with ALLEVIATION (3)
Will we turn our backs on science because it is perceived as a threat to God, abandoning all the promise of advancing our understanding of nature and applying that to the alleviation of suffering and the betterment of humankind? Alternatively, will we turn our backs on faith, concluding that science has rendered the spiritual life no longer necessary, and that traditional religious symbols can now be replaced by engravings of the double helix on our alters? Both of these choi…
... A canonical leader is someone whose exemplary rule might have appeared to be for the alleviation of the pains and miseries of a particular group, but which in reality is for the advancement of humanism...
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares. The older have learned to ever expect it. I am anxious to afford some alleviation of your present distress. Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You can not now realize that you will ever feel better. Is not this so? And yet it is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again. To know this, which is certainly true, will make you some less …
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1972–1997).