Sentence example with the word 'alleviate'

alleviate

abate, bate, cushion, disburden, give relief, lull, obtund, reduce, slacken, stifle, unballast

Definition v. provide physical relief

Last update: April 27, 2016


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The govt. has introduced schemes to alleviate poverty.   [verb]

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You can obtain medications to help alleviate the symptoms from your doctor.   [adjective]

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I believe, however, that the UN ideally, should not have to alleviate the desolation and adversity of war.   [verb]

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Learned men--benefactors of all--spend their lives in working, in seeking what can aid, what be of use, what can alleviate the lot of their fellows.   [verb]

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Morton, 'to make the experiment whether he may not be brought to communicate to me some circumstances which may hereafter be useful to alleviate, if not to exculpate, his conduct.'   [verb]

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It is a matter which never struck me as being of the least consequence--for if worldly possessions could alleviate misery, I have enough and to spare.   [verb]

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I replied, that nothing ailed me save anxiety of mind, which I hoped soon to alleviate.   [verb]

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It alleviated his wounds.   [verb]

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My depression was not alleviated by the announcement, for, I had supposed that establishment to be an hotel kept by Mr.   [verb]

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I found her not only an agreeable companion, whose conversation greatly alleviated my chagrin, but also a careful nurse, who served me with the utmost fidelity and affection.   [verb]

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She wasn't sure why she'd hoped he was gone, except that his absence would alleviate her guilty conscious.   [Please select]

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allegory - alleviate - alliteration