alleviate
To reduce or lessen the severity of a pain or difficulty.
Other meanings
to pay down partially.
“There are different ways to alleviate your financial debt.”
Synonyms
- relieve
Related words
- alleviative
- alleviatingly
- alleviated
- alleviation
- alleviator
Word history
From Latin "alleviatus".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “alleviate” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.